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Status Delivered
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 23, 2012

CICS Gateway Support for OEL 5u4

Seeking support for OEL 5u6, as this is a corporate standard. OEL 5u6 is not specifically listed in the supported operated systems. As far
as we understand OEL is a derivative of RHEL. is OEL supported by CTG even though
it is not specifically listed?

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Oct 5, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - CICS Transaction Gateway

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - CICS Transaction Gateway

  • Guest
    Reply
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    Mar 28, 2012

    The updated s/w stack external document for 8.1 is now available:

    http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21577454

    Note the item #4 under the section "Operating Systems - UNIX® and Linux® "

    "Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible environments must be binary and source compatible with supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions listed above. "