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Compatibility of Beta Systems products with z/OS

All product releases of Beta 48, Beta 77, Beta 85, Beta 88, Beta 89, Beta 91, Beta 92, Beta 93, Beta 93 - Fast Retrieval, and Beta 93 - Document Transformer that are still in maintenance will run under the z/OS releases currently maintained by IBM

Within the three-month period following the release of a new version of z/OS, Beta Systems performs tests to verify the executability of the above-mentioned Beta Systems products with the new version of the operating system. You will find the known recommendations on this page:

If you would like to use operating system z/OS 1.10, please contact Tech-Info@betasystems.com beforehand, until further notice.

The same applies if you are using IBM's fee-based "IBM Lifecycle Extension" support for your z/OS 1.7 operating system: please contact Tech-Info@betasystems.com.

Please refer to this page for a list of the Beta Systems products currently in maintenance.

For further technical information on supported operating systems and compatibility of other Beta Systems products, please contact Tech-Info@betasystems.com.

Compatibility of Beta Systems products with IBM zSeries

Our products Beta 48, Beta 77, Beta 85, Beta 88, Beta 89, Beta 91, Beta 92, Beta 93, Beta 93 - Fast Retrieval and Beta 93 - Document Transformer currently in maintenance run on the platforms zSeries 800, zSeries 890, zSeries 990, zSeries z9 and zSeries z10 under the operating system z/OS.

We can only confirm this compatibility for operating system releases which are still in maintenance by IBM.

Please refer to this page for a list of the Beta Systems products currently in maintenance.

Compatibility of Beta Systems products with one another

When deploying classic BSA-based Beta Systems products (Beta 91, Beta 92, Beta 93 etc.), please take into account that all systems that are to communicate with one another must run on the basis of the same BSA version. However, it is not possible to use the version number of the product concerned as the criterion for determining whether a product runs with BSA V3 or BSA V4.

The only decisive factor is the BSA version itself. This is because some products (e.g. Beta 88 and Beta 92 Enterprise) have a version number V4Rn that still runs on the basis of BSA Version 3.

By referring to this list you can see at a glance in the title bar whether  the product version concerned runs with BSA Version 3  or BSA Version 4.

Note:
Beta 93 - Fast Retrieval V4R0 runs with BSA V4R1 only.

Beta 93 - Fast Retrieval V4R1 runs with BSA V4R2 only.

The detailed compatibility lists will be revised and are temporarily not available for download. In the meantime please contact Tech-Info@betasystems.com.