Root element: This schema defines a list of core IBM software product lifecycle data. Version: 2.0 Last updated: 2008-10-31 Contains information about an individual software product title. Applications reading this file should compare this data with any cached data to determine what has changed. The standard software product title used for marketing. The synKey is the unique key for this title in the content management system. A pointer to the current product title. The synKey can be used to find the new title in this set of data. A list of the current and previous Version numbers for this product. A version (major release) of the product. Also contains information about releases and modification levels (for example, patches and fix packs). The attributes indicate the IBM support offering program and the marketing/support product identifier. This is the version number for the product. A list of the current and previous Release and ModLevel numbers for this product. A combined Release and Modlevel for the product. This is the release number for the product. This is the modification level number for the product. The Product Lifecycle information for this particular release and modlevel of the product. The General Availability (GA) date is based on the latest date that a version/release of the product is available to all users, regardless of language or media. The End of Marketing (EOM) date indicates when IBM stopped (or plans to stop) marketing this version/release/mod of the product. The End of Service (EOS) date indicates when IBM stopped (or plans to stop) supporting this version/release/mod of the product. Customers requiring service after this date may be able to purchase customized support for a product that has reached EOS. Contact your IBM sales representative for more information. The Announcement Letter Number for each lifecycle event can be used to link to the annoncment letter by adding it to the end of this url, replacing the "???-???" value: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS???-??? The exception attribute ("Y", if present) indicates that this product does not conform to IBM's standard lifecycle policies. Contact your IBM sales representative for more information about lifecycle support for such a product. The lifecyclePolicy attribute indicates whether IBM's standard ("S"), enhanced ("E") or other ("O") software support lifecycle policy applies to this product. Information about these policies is available on the IBM software support lifecycle policy page at www.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycle. A link to additional information about the support lifecycle for this product.