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General Availability (GA) and End of Support (EOS) dates are U.S. only and are linked to their U.S. announcement letters (if available). Information for other country announcements is available on the IBM Announements page. Select the date to view the announcement letter. Note that some product versions may not have online announcement letters.
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Lifecycle date definitions General Availability (GA) The latest date that a version/release of the product is available to all users, regardless of language or media. A product version/release is not published on the Lifecycle web site until the GA date. End of Support (EOS) The last date on which IBM will deliver standard support services for a given version/release of a product. End of Marketing (EOM) The effective date on which a part number ceases to be included as active and can no longer be ordered in standard price lists.
IBM provides lifecyle news feeds in Really Simple Syndication (RSS) format to keep you up-to-date about lifecycle event date changes for IBM products. If you need to process or analyze the lifecycle data programmatically, we recommend that you download the lifecycle data.
IBM provides lifecycle data in eXtensible Markup Language (XML) format for customers who need to perform automated processing and analysis of IBM lifecycle data. If you simply need to receive automatic daily updates of this information in a human-readable format, we recommend that you subscribe to the lifecycle news feed.
We update our lifecycle data once per day. The daily download contains all products whose lifecycle data has changed in the previous 24 hours. To download this data, select the Download daily XML data link below. Your browser will prompt you to open or save the data to a file.
Our Product lifecycle XML data schema document describes the format, organization, and relationships within the XML product lifecycle data. If you plan to create custom software to process the XML data, you will find the schema useful. Even if you choose simply to import the XML data into a spreadsheet, the documentation within the schema file will help you understand the organization of data contained in the XML data.
General Availability (GA) and End of Support (EOS) dates are U.S. only and are linked to their U.S. announcement letters (if available). Information for other country announcements is available on the IBM Announcements page. Select the date to view the announcement letter. Note that some product versions may not have online announcement letters.
MFX Support LifeCycle Schedule provides advanced notification of planned changes in product support. This information helps customers and partners with product planning and information technology decisions.
Beyond the timeframe of full support, Syncsort continues to provide extended support until five years after GA of a release. The extended support includes access to Syncsort support engineers per terms of the license agreement, access to already existing software updates/fixes and knowledge base support, but can exclude new software maintenance and content updates. The investigation by Syncsort into new issues is limited and will not include any development. Any support requests for MFX releases beyond their extended support dates are handled on a case by case basis by Syncsort support engineers.
Product support extensions, designed to allow migration to the current release to be completed, may be available for an additional fee. For additional information on product technical support extensions beyond the Extended Support period, contact your Syncsort representative.
Introduced in 2000, IBM z/OS is a 64-bit mainframe operating system (OS) developed by IBM for its family of enterprise z/Architecture mainframe computers that organizations use for running mission-critical applications.
The 64-bit z/Architecture is backward-compatible with older 24- and 31-bit applications. Z/OS supports web and Java-based applications, as well as COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language). The latest version of z/OS is 2.5.
IBM mainframes with z/OS run complex, mission-critical workloads for large enterprise organizations. Mainframes are well suited for tasks involving large-scale transaction processing and can handle thousands of users and many applications at once.
Mainframes can also simultaneously handle diverse units of work because of their ability to run secure, multi-tenant workloads. Each application runs in its own protected memory space and operates to its own performance goals.
IBM z/OS 2.5 offers AI capabilities that are tightly integrated with z/OS workloads. These are designed to give users business insights for more informed decision-making. This next-generation OS for IBM Z also supports hybrid cloud.
Z/OS has established a long pedigree of reliable operation. IBM's careful attention to workload management, scheduling and security can be vital attributes for busy enterprises running critical applications.
With z/OS, companies can also run guest OSes, like Linux, Unix and Windows. However, z/OS and the mainframes it runs on can be an expensive investment that can include a proprietary monthly license charge, pricing based on usage and reduced pricing options for some applications.
IBM native OSes, like z/OS, are also closed source, so users must rely on IBM to maintain and update the code. Users may be forced into updates and associated costs as support expires on aging OS versions.
Similarly, in the event underlying platforms, browsers, and/or systems incorporated in a CyberArk product, are no longer supported by their respective vendor, or are not properly maintained by their vendors, CyberArk may be required to shorten the Development Period of the version which relies on such systems in order to comply with appropriate security and performance levels of its products.
During the Development Period, CyberArk backports high and critical severity security bug fixes, and critical severity functionality bug fixes. LTS versions offer a longer Development Period than STS versions, as indicated by the End of Development Dates in the EOL dates for self-hosted products.
The Support Period may be extended by the customer for the duration indicated in the EOL dates for self-hosted products, subject to payment of additional applicable fees. In any event, it is not possible to extend the Development Period.
CyberArk only supports upgrades from one LTS version to another or to the latest version release. This is designed to avoid inadvertently downgrading security or stability fixes that are included in LTS patches or in the latest version release.
The following table lists the versions of Privileged Threat Analytics (PTA) early releases that are no longer supported or available for download. After version 3.95, PTA was incorporated into CyberArk PAM - Self-Hosted.
Conjur Secrets Manager Enterprise only supports direct upgrades from one version to the next version. For example, you can perform a direct upgrade from version 12.0 to version 12.1, but not to 12.2 or later.
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