PRODUCT COMPATIBILITY FOR IBM PLATFORMS

IBM Supported Platforms by Software AG

The following are the supported IBM hardware platforms:

  • IBM Power Systems including AS/400, iSeries, System i, pSeries, and System p
    Power Systems running AIX and IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS and OS/400)
  • IBM xSeries running Microsoft Windows and Linux Distributions
  • IBM zSeries running either IBM z/OS, IBM z/VSE, IBM z/VM, or Linux Distributions for zSeries

Here you will find product testing information relative to the latest IBM mainframe operating systems and related IBM subsystems.

Note:
This page represents our testing of our operating system dependent product components under the latest IBM operating systems and subsystems and any possible release and fix information that was determined in our testing with the latest IBM components.

For the availability of other Software AG products, please refer to: https://empower.softwareag.com/

 

IBM System z Information:

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Urgent Customer Information

z/OS Urgent Customer Flashes, IBM Flashes Document has been updated for IBM z/OS V1.10 as June 23, 2010

What's New?

  • As of April 3rd, 2012, IBM has announced IBM z/VSE V5.1.1 upgrade with availability on June 15th, 2012.
  • As of October 12th, 2011, IBM has announced IBM z/VSE V5.1 with product availability being November 25th, 2011. The informaton on our web page has been updated with early information.
  • As of October 12th, 2011, IBM has announced IBM z/VM V6.2 with product availability being December 2nd, 2011. The information on our web page has been updated with early information.
  • As of October 4th, 2011, IBM has announced IBM Websphere MQ V7.1 for z/OS with product availability being November 25th, 2011.
  • As of October 4th, 2011, IBM has announced IBM IMS 12 for z/OS with product availability being October 28th, 2011.
  • As of July 12th, 2011, IBM has announced IBM zEnterprise 114 - Freedom by design midrange System z server which can run z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE, and LInux on System z. We at Software AG are not aware of any issues in migrating to the IBM z114 at this time.
  • As of July 12th, 2011, IBM has announced General Availability for z/OS 13 for the IBM System z hardware platform. The z/OS document has been updated to reflect initial testing of Software AG products under this new release of z/OS 13. As of July 12th,  this product will be generally available to customers on September 30th, 2011.
  • As of April 5, 2011, IBM has announced General Availability for CICS TS V4.2 for z/OS for the IBM System z hardware platform. The CICS TS document for z/OS has been updated to reflect initial testing of Software AG products under this new release. As of June 24th, this product is now generally available.
  • As of October 22nd, IBM has announced General Availability for DB2 10 for z/OS for the IBM System z hardware platform. Please note that Software AG's Natural product will support DB2 10 with the release of Natural V4.2.7 (NDB427) and NDB432 which will both be released on December 7th, 2010.
  • As of October 5th, IBM has announced General Availability for z/VSE 4.3 for the IBM System z hardware platform. Please see updated IBM Product Compatibility information below as of October 8th.
  • IBM has also announced General Availability for z/OS 12 for the IBM System z hardware platform. Please see updated IBM Product Compatibility information below.
  • As of July 22nd, Software AG is publishing the results of it's testing of z/OS Extended Address Volumes (EAV) with the introduction of IBM z/OS 12. Please see updated document below in the z/OS IBM Product Compatibility information section.
  • As of July 22nd, IBM has announced General Availability for z/OS 12 for the IBM System z hardware platform. Please see updated IBM Product Compatibility information below
  • As of July 22nd, IBM has announced General Availability for the IBM zEnterprise 196 (z196) family of servers. We have provided information on our product testing of this new IBM System z processor family.

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Software AG Highlights on the IBM z/OS platform:

Software Information

Products for IBM z/OS , update May 3, 2012 
IBM Subsystems for z/OS:



Products for IBM z/VSE
, update May 2, 2012

IBM Subsystems for z/VSE:



Products for z/VM , update May 1, 2012

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