Deprecation Notifications and Announcements

This section contains information about features that will not be supported in a future release.

Operating System and Required Component Software

Support for the following operating system platforms and application server are being deprecated and will not be supported in future releases:

• Solaris 8 Operating System

• RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 2.1 Operating System

• Application Server 7

Portal Server CLIs

Existing Portal Server command line utilities are deprecated, and their functions will be replaced with a single Portal Server command line utility in a future release. The following Portal Server command line utilities are deprecated, and their functions will be replaced with a single Portal Server command line utility in a future release:

• changepasswd

• checkgw

• checkrp

• checknetletd

• deploy

• dpadmin

• gwmultiinstance

• multiserverinstance

• par

• pdeploy

• ppatcher

• rwadmin

• rwpmultiinstance

• undeploy

• version

Administration Console

The existing Portal Server administration console is deprecated, and its functions will be replaced with a new Portal Server management console in a future release.

Portal Server Desktop Template Container Provider

The Portal Desktop Template Container Provider interface is being deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Interface components being deprecated include:

• Global display profile Desktop template container provider definitions

• Desktop template container provider presentation files

• Desktop template container provider resource bundles

• Desktop template container provider presentation images