This flash is announcing the impact of Java 6 End of Service (EOS) for the IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) 5.x suite of products.
IBM SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 6 is no longer supported on distributed platforms. IBM stopped providing security fixes to Java 6 on most platforms in September 2017. For Systems z, Java 6 will be in end of service as of September 2018. As a result, IBM will not provide any further Java related security fixes for products that are built with Java 6, and EOS impact announcements are being published. WebSphere Application Server (WAS) v7.x and v8.5.5.x on Java 6 JDK will be in EOS as of April 30, 2018.
Impact
IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) version 5.x uses Java 6 and is being affected.
Recommendation
IBM highly recommends customers that use IBM Watson IoT Continuous Engineering / Collaborative Lifecycle Management suite of products upgrade to V6.0.5 due to potential Java security risks in V5.0.2 and earlier releases of these products. V6.0.5 is the first release of the Continuous Engineering suite to use the IBM Java SDK v8. Earlier Continuous Engineering releases V6.0 to 6.0.4 use the IBM Java SDK v7, both of which are still supported. See IBM developer kits lifecycle dates for more details.
Reference material:
Java SE 6 end of service in WebSphere Application Server V8.5
CLM Upgrade Resource:
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