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<p style="margin-top:0in;background:white"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222">BigFix Patch is pleased to announce support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on System Z or IBM’s s390x architecture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;background:white"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222">The new site called ‘Patches for RHEL 8 on System Z’ uses DNF package manager and contains content from the following channels:<br>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.5pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 - BaseOS (RPMs)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.5pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 - AppStream (RPMs)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.5pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 - Supplementary (RPMs)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222">Actions to Take:
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RHEL 8z requires BigFix Client version 9.5 Patch 14 (9.5.14.73).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222">Subscribe to the ’Patches for RHEL 8 on System Z’ site from the License Overview Dashboard. If the site is not showing in the License Overview dashboard, update your license
from the dashboard by clicking ‘Check for license update’, then run the BigFix Administration Tool.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222">You will also need to upgrade the RHSM download plug-in to version 1.0.5.0. Upgrade the RHSM download plug-in from the Manage Download Plug-ins dashboard, available from the
‘Patching Support’ site.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222">Users of the RHSM download cacher will need to update to version 1.0.5.0:<br>
Windows - <a href="http://software.bigfix.com/download/bes/util/RHSMDownloadCacher.exe"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0088CC">http://software.bigfix.com/download/bes/util/RHSMDownloadCacher.exe</span></a><br>
Linux - <a href="http://software.bigfix.com/download/bes/util/RHSMDownloadCacher-linux.tar.gz"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0088CC">http://software.bigfix.com/download/bes/util/RHSMDownloadCacher-linux.tar.gz</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222">Published Sites:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222"><br>
Patches for RHEL 8 on System Z, site version 1<br>
Patching Support, site version </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">972</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222">Application Engineering Team<br>
BigFix<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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