Announcement Summary - September 30, 2014
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Announcements by Letter Number
914-212 Hardware withdrawal: IBM System x® select features
914-215 Software withdrawal and discontinuance of support: IBM Rational® selected products
914-224 Software withdrawal and support discontinuance: InfoSphere® Optim™ Workload Replay V1.1.0
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At a glance
IBM Kenexa Talent Suite family of talent management offerings now includes IBM Kenexa Talent Insights, a data discovery application that allows human resources professionals and managers to explore, analyze, and navigate talent data so they can observe patterns or gain actionable insights. Since Kenexa Insights leverages Watson Analytics, it does not require advanced analytic skills and can deliver results quickly.
Additional enhancements to Kenexa Talent Suite include the following:
- Improved access through a mobile device to forms and home page information available on your website
- Easy franchise compliance for new hire paperwork and Form I-9 reverification
- Social network referral to help you discover the best candidates
Overview
IBM Kenexa Talent Suite is a family of cloud offerings that help you hire, engage, and retain great talent by combining recruiting, onboarding, and talent management solutions with industry-leading enterprise social software. Candidates, new hires, existing employees, human resource professionals, and managers can access the solutions through an intuitive and integrated experience that utilizes responsive design for mobile devices. Then, by using the power of Watson Analytics, included in the new Kenexa Talent Insights offering, human resource professionals can quickly discover valuable trends and insights from their talent data using simple natural language instead of time consuming requests to IT departments.
IBM Kenexa Talent Suites include the following offerings and enhancements:
- IBM Kenexa Talent Acquisition Suite combines recruitment, onboarding, and social collaboration capabilities so that you can hire top talent and help them become productive quickly. In this release, you can leverage the power of employee's social networks with new social referral capabilities. The experience for those verified candidates is improved with new mobile device support. Once the candidates are hired, they can also use the IBM Connections Social Cloud mobile application to collaborate and learn from existing employees in communities. In this offering, support for franchise management and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services form I-9, Section 3 re-verification for your employee onboarding process is also added to Kenexa Talent Acquisition Suite.
- IBM Kenexa Talent Optimization Suite includes performance management, succession management, and social collaboration applications to help maximize the performance of your human capital. The performance management module enables you to streamline the entire performance planning and review process by centralizing workflows and process. Succession planning helps you identify internal candidates with the necessary skills, competency ratings, and performance histories to fill potential vacancies. There is also an optional compensation planning module that supports budgeting, allocation, and administration of multiple pay types.
- IBM Kenexa Talent Insights is a new optional module that simplifies data discovery and analysis without advanced analytics skills. By simply using natural language text, human resource professionals can gain actionable insights from their talent suite data. The new offering also includes guided data discovery and automatically generated charts to help you identify trends and relationships in your recruiting, onboarding, and talent management processes. You can gain insights about your human capital that can help drive better executive decisions.
Key prerequisites
- Internet connection
- Browser
Refer to the Technical information section for additional information.
Planned availability date
- September 30, 2014: IBM Kenexa Talent Acquisition
- September 30, 2014: IBM Kenexa Talent Optimization
- November 17, 2014: IBM Kenexa Talent Insights
Withdrawal Announcements
914-212
Hardware withdrawal: IBM System x® select features
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Overview
Effective October 31, 2014, IBM will withdraw the following products from marketing. As of this date, you can no longer obtain these products directly from IBM. You can obtain these products through authorized remarketers or IBM-authorized System x and BladeCenter® dealers while supplies last.
These products, while no longer marketed by IBM, may continue to be available from authorized Option Continuation Program (OCP) resellers. For details on this program, visit
If you have a continuing need for these options, visit our IBM Certified Used Equipment™ website to check on availability or utilize our "request a quote" to communicate your specific requirements. IBM Certified Used Equipment has the largest inventory of used IBM systems that are refurbished, tested, and warranted for a minimum of 90 days. For further information, visit
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Effective December 31, 2016, IBM will withdraw from support all part numbers from the following program licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:
Support
Program withdrawal
number Program release name date
5725-E27 IBM Sterling Transportation Management 12/31/2016
System (all versions)
Effective September 30, 2014, IBM will withdraw from marketing all part numbers from the following program licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:
Marketing
Program withdrawal
number Program release name date
5725-E27 IBM Sterling Transportation Management 09/30/2014
System (all versions)
914-224
Software withdrawal and support discontinuance: InfoSphere® Optim™ Workload Replay V1.1.0
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Overview
Effective September 9, 2015, IBM will withdraw support for the following programs licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement.
| Program number | Program release name | Withdrawal from support date |
|---|---|---|
| 5725-F35 | InfoSphere Optim Workload Replay V1.1.0 | September 9, 2015 |
914-215
Software withdrawal and discontinuance of support: IBM Rational® selected products
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Overview
Effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw from marketing part numbers from the following product release licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:
Withdrawal
from
Program marketing
number VRM date Program release name
5725-F66 Null May 29, 2015 IBM Elite Sup for MidVision Ext to IBM
RAF
5725-I06 2.0.0 December 09, 2014 IBM SmartCloud® Continuous Delivery
5725-F65 Null December 09, 2014 MidVision Extensions to IBM RAF
Effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw support from the following product releases licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:
Withdrawal
from
Program support
number VRM date Program release name
5725-I06 2.0.0 September 30, 2015 IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery
5724-J19 8.0.x September 30, 2015 Rational Application Developer for
WebSphere® Software
5724-R42 7.1.x September 30, 2015 Rational Asset Manager
5733-RDA 7.6.0 September 30, 2015 Rational Developer for Power® Systems
Software C/C++ Development Tools for
AIX
5733-RDB 7.6.0 September 30, 2015 Rational Developer for Power Systems
Software COBOL Development Tools for
AIX
5733-RDP 7.6.0 September 30, 2015 Rational Developer for Power Systems
Software RPG and COBOL Development
Tools for i
5725-A30 8.0.x September 30, 2015 Rational Software Architect
5724-Z01 2.0 September 30, 2015 Rational Team Concert™ for Power Systems
Software
5724-Z00 2.0 September 30, 2015 Rational Team Concert for Power Systems
Software Express® Edition
5724-V82 2.0 September 30, 2015 Rational Team Concert for System z
5724-G20 7.5 September 30, 2015 Rational Test RealTime
IBM will not offer extended support for the products listed within this announcement, after the September 30, 2015, end of support date. Clients are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of the products, referencing to the upgrade instructions and IBM Support.
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Notice of service/support discontinuance
For improved features and function, it is recommended that clients stay current at available levels.
Effective April 30, 2015, IBM will discontinue service for the selected version/release/modification/fix levels of the following programs:
Program model VRMF Description 5765-FMX 1.1.(ALL) IBM Flex System® Manager 5765-FMS 1.1.(ALL) IBM Flex System Manager Advanced
Effective September 30, 2015, IBM will discontinue service for the selected version/release/modification/fix levels of the following programs:
Program model VRMF Description 5765-FMX 1.2.(ALL) IBM Flex System Manager 5765-FMS 1.2.(ALL) IBM Flex System Manager Advanced