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Product Name	 : TIBCO Enterprise Message Service(TM) for z/Linux
Release Version	 : 8.5.0
Release Date	 : May 2019

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Introduction 

TIBCO is proud to announce the latest release of TIBCO
Enterprise Message Service (TM). This release is the latest in
a long history of TIBCO products that leverage the power of the
Information Bus(R) to enable truly event-driven IT
environments. To find out more about how TIBCO Enterprise
Message Service(TM) and other TIBCO products are powered by
TIB(R) technology, please visit us at www.tibco.com.

TIBCO Enterprise Message Service software allows you to send
messages from your applications in a format that conforms to
the Java Message Service (JMS) specification. The software also
extends the JMS specification with a reliable delivery mode and
a no-acknowledge acknowledgement mode.

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Supported Platforms

   Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
      12.x 64-bit on System z
   Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
      7.x 64-bit on System z

Additional Information 

   SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.x (and later) and Red Hat
   Enterprise Linux 7.x (and later) on IBM System z do NOT support
   these features:
    - SmartSockets Transports
    - FTL Transports

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Minimum Software Requirements

   Third-party Software:
     IBM Java Developer Kits 1.8
     IBM Java Runtime Environment 1.8

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Product-Specific Information 

The included documentation for TIBCO Enterprise Message
Service(TM) references optional features that involve storing
messages in a database. These optional features are dependent
upon installation and use of Hibernate Core for Java and
associated jar files ("Hibernate"). If you choose not to
install Hibernate, you will not have access to the optional
features. Such features include, but are not limited to,
features relating to storing messages in a database as
described or referenced in the User's Guide, Release Notes,
and/or Installation Guide, including but not limited to the
User's Guide Chapter on Using Database Stores.

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Documentation

Documentation for this and other TIBCO products is available on
the TIBCO Documentation site. This site is updated more
frequently than any documentation that might be included with
the product. To ensure that you are accessing the latest
available help topics, visit: https://docs.tibco.com.

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TIBCO Product Support

You can contact TIBCO Support in the following ways:

  For an overview of TIBCO Support, visit
  http://www.tibco.com/services/support.

  For accessing the Support Knowledge Base and getting
  personalized content about products you are interested in,
  visit the TIBCO Support portal at https://support.tibco.com.

  For creating a Support case, you must have a valid
  maintenance or support contract with TIBCO. You also need a
  user name and password to log in to https://support.tibco.com.
  If you do not have a user name, you can request one by clicking
  Register on the website.

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Copyright

Copyright (c) 1997-2019. TIBCO Software Inc. All Rights Reserved.



