[gpfsug-discuss] [External] Re: mmbackup
Jonathan Buzzard
jonathan.buzzard at strath.ac.uk
Mon Aug 17 11:33:16 BST 2020
On 17/08/2020 10:53, Jim Roche wrote:
> Simon is correct from that point of view. If you can see it on your
> commercial.lenovo.com site then you are able to use it within your
> licensing rules and that you are still compatible from a Spectrum
> Scale point of view. The DSS-G specific tarballs (2.6a, 2.6b, 3.0,
> etc...) should be used exactly as is for deploying the DSS-G, but
> then normal Spectrum scale client/server compatibility follows. The
> tarball will define what MUST run on the DSS-G NSDs, but after that
> you are free to download/use whichever client version you are
> entitled to -- which should correspond to what is visible on the
> website to download.
>
That's what I guessed, but nowhere does it ever state that. Thanks for
confirming it. Email now filed away for a cover my back in the event of
any license audit :-)
On a related note someone at IBM needs to update the extractor thing for
the data access version so that it works properly on a HiDPI display. My
understanding is that contract terms are unreadable are not valid in the
UK and on my Surface Book (running Linux of course) the text is not
readable :-)
JAB.
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