<font size=2 face="Ebrima">To facilitate bringing our users the best combination
of functionality and usability, IBM BigFix Patch will be deprecating the
following non-Native Tools Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise
sites in January 31, 2016.</font><font size=3 face="Arial"> </font><ul><li><font size=2 face="Ebrima">Patches for RHEL 5</font><li><font size=2 face="Ebrima">Patches for RHEL 5 Dependency Resolution</font><li><font size=2 face="Ebrima">Patches for RHEL 6 Dependency Resolution</font><li><font size=2 face="Ebrima">Patches for SLE11<br></font></ul><font size=2 face="Ebrima">After January 31, 2016, BigFix Patch
will no longer provide content and support for these sites. The deprecated
sites will no longer be available on the License Overview dashboard. <br><br>If you are subscribed to these sites for patching, we encourage you to
migrate at your earliest convenience to the Native Tools versions of these
operating systems. Native Tools versions are more efficient, can handle
third-party packages, and provide a means to use custom repositories.</font><font size=2 color=#009f82 face="Ebrima"><i><br><br></i></font><font size=2 face="Ebrima"><i>Action to take:</i><br>Subscribe to the native tools sites versions of the operating systems whose
sites are getting deprecated.</font><ul><li><font size=2 face="Ebrima">Patches for RHEL 5 - Native Tools site</font><li><font size=2 face="Ebrima">Patches for RHEL 6 - Native Tools site</font><li><font size=2 face="Ebrima">Patches for SLE11 - Native Tools site</font></ul><font size=2 face="Ebrima"><i><br>Does the site deprecation cause any additional impact? </i><br>The deprecation of the sites affect the baselines and custom sites that
are associated with the non-native sites. While you can still see the source
Fixlets, no new content will be provided and the sites will no longer be
visible in the License Overview dashboard. You must create new, separate
baselines with the native tools sites. <br><br><i>Other references:<br></i>To learn more, see the following information: <br>RHEL: </font><a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6MER_9.2.0/com.ibm.tem.patch.doc_9.2/Patch_Man/Patch_Man_RH/t_subscribing_to_patches_for_rhel_sites.html?lang=en"><font size=2 face="Ebrima"><u>http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6MER_9.2.0/com.ibm.tem.patch.doc_9.2/Patch_Man/Patch_Man_RH/t_subscribing_to_patches_for_rhel_sites.html?lang=en</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Ebrima"><br>SLE: </font><table width=998 style="border-collapse:collapse;"><tr valign=top height=8><td width=998 bgcolor=#fafafa style="border-style:none none none none;border-color:#000000;border-width:0px 0px 0px 0px;padding:0px 0px;"><a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6MER_9.2.0/com.ibm.tem.patch.doc_9.2/Patch_Man/Patch_Man_SUSE/c_patching_methods.html?lang=en"><font size=2 face="Ebrima"><u>http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6MER_9.2.0/com.ibm.tem.patch.doc_9.2/Patch_Man/Patch_Man_SUSE/c_patching_methods.html?lang=en</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Ebrima"></font></table><br><br><br><font size=2 face="Ebrima"><i>Application Engineering Team<br></i>BigFix Patch </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br></font><br><BR>