This community is for those connecting their legacy SNA application distributed platforms to the Z platform and centralizing expertise in the data centers.
In 2012, the Communications Server for Data Center Deployment V7.0 was made generally available in December. At that time, RHEL 6 and 7, SLES 10, 11 and AIX 5.3 and 6.1 were the current operating systems supported. Now, all those systems will have been out of support by mid-year when RHEL 7 goes out of support. The RHEL 8 support was added in 2016, but only on the Intel Linux, x86_64 platform.
In 2021 the Communications Server for Data Center Deployment V7.1 was released that supports RHEL 7, 8, 9 and SLES 12 SP5 and SLES 15, along with Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04. Customers with S&S licensing can download the latest code to replace the older V7.0.
The End of Support announcement is here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/software-support-discontinuance-communications-server-data-center-deployment
Jeff L Smith Communications Server Development
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