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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As previously announced, IBM BigFix Patch are removing SLE and Ubuntu content that were superseded on or before January 31st, 2018 from the current external Fixlet sites, today, February 8th, 2019. Content
will be gradually removed in the upcoming days. This is part of the site maintenance exercise to help optimize external Fixlet sites.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">These superseded content are archived in the following sites:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Patches for SLE 11 Native Tools Superseded<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Patches for SLE 11 on System z Native Tools Superseded<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Patches for SLE 12 Superseded<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Patches for SLE 12 on System z Superseded<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Patches for SLE 12 PPC64LE Superseded<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Patches for Ubuntu 1404 Superseded<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Patches for Ubuntu 1604 Superseded<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please note that superseded content from Patches for SLE 11 PPC64BE and Patches for Ubuntu 1804 sites will not be removed at this time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Baselines containing the superseded Fixlets might display an out-of-sync status in the Baseline Synchronization Dashboard. Syncing your baselines components with the source Fixlets might return a warning,
but will not cause issues during deployment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Action to take:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If you need to access the sites for the superseded content, contact your IBM Technical Sales Representative to obtain the mastheads for these sites.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Applications Engineering team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">IBM BigFix<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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