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GSKit levels distributed by IBM Storage Protect

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Question

What IBM Global Security Kit (GSKit) versions are included in the IBM Storage Protect products? 

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Overview

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol provide transport layer security for a secure connection between servers, clients, and storage agents. The IBM® Global Security Kit (GSKit) provides libraries and utilities for SSL or TLS communication. Those libraries are used by IBM Storage Protect product components. When several IBM Storage Protect products or other IBM products are used, the same GSKit versions or the most current version should be used to ensure interoperability.

Note: To ensure that a single source of GSKit libraries is used, the symbolic link approach can be used, see in steps IBM Documentation: Creating a symbolic link to access the latest GSKit library.


GSKit versions in IBM Storage Protect

The following tables list the versions where a GSKit version introduced:


Release 8.1

Note: The product now known as IBM Storage Protect was named IBM Spectrum Protect in levels earlier than 8.1.19. To learn more about the brand change, see IBM Spectrum brand change to IBM Storage.
 
Version of backup-archive client & API Version of GSKit
 8.1.2 -  8.1.4 8.0.50.78
 8.1.4.1 - 8.1.6 8.0.50.86
8.1.6.1- 8.1.7.1 8.0.55.2
8.1.8 8.0.55.4
8.1.9 8.0.55.9
8.1.9.2 (only macOS) 8.0.55.14 (macOS)
8.1.10 8.0.55.14 (all OSs except macOS),
8.0.55.15 (macOS)
8.1.11 8.0.55.17
8.1.12 8.0.55.21
8.1.13 - 8.1.15.1 8.0.55.24
8.1.15.2 8.0.55.28
8.1.17 - 8.1.17.2 8.0.55.29
8.1.19 - until current delivery in this release 8.0.55.31 (all OSs except macOS),
8.0.55.29 (macOS)

Find the downloads for this release in IBM Storage Protect Downloads - Latest Fix Packs and interim fixes
 

Version of Data Protection for VMware Version of GSKit
8.1.2 - 8.1.4 8.0.50.78
8.1.4.1 - 8.1.6 8.0.50.86
8.1.6.1- 8.1.7 8.0.55.2
8.1.8 8.0.55.4
8.1.9 8.0.55.9
8.1.10 8.0.55.14
8.1.11 8.0.55.17
8.1.12 8.0.55.21
8.1.13 - 8.1.15.1 8.0.55.24
8.1.15.2 8.0.55.28
8.1.17 - 8.1.17.2 8.0.55.29
8.1.19 - until current delivery in this release 8.0.55.31

Version of Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V Version of GSKit
8.1.4 8.0.50.78
8.1.4.2 - 8.1.6 8.0.50.86
8.1.6.1 - 8.1.7 8.0.55.2
8.1.8 8.0.55.4
8.1.9 8.0.55.9
8.1.10 8.0.55.14
8.1.11 8.0.55.17
8.1.12 8.0.55.21
8.1.13 - 8.1.15 8.0.55.24
8.1.15.2 8.0.55.28
8.1.17 - 8.1.17.2 8.0.55.29
8.1.19 - until current delivery in this release 8.0.55.31

Find the downloads for this release in Featured Documents: IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments.



 

Release 7.1

Note: IBM Spectrum Protect and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 7.1 reached end of support (EOS) at 31 December 2021. See also IBM Spectrum Protect and Tivoli Storage Manager 7.1 products End of Support 31 December 2021

Version of backup-archive client & API Version of GSKit
7.1.8 8.0.50.78
7.1.8.2 8.0.50.86
7.1.8.5 8.0.55.2
7.1.8.6 8.0.55.4
7.1.8.7 8.0.55.9
7.1.8.9 8.0.55.14
7.1.8.10 8.0.55.17 (all OSs except macOS),
8.0.55.14 (macOS)
7.1.8.11 8.0.55.21 (all OSs except macOS),
8.0.55.14 (macOS)
7.1.8.12 - until current delivery in this release 8.0.55.24

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GSKit versions in other products

For GSKit Versions that included with Db2, see GSKit Versions included with IBM Db2.

For GSKit Versions that included with Domino, see Resolving GSKit incompatibility between Domino and IBM Spectrum Protect for Domino.

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Modified date:
25 July 2023

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