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This document provides vital information for all HPE NonStop customers and partners, about the availability of older NSJ versions, to note and take necessary & time critical actions at the earliest.HPE has been supplying the NSJ product on the HPE NonStop systems for more than two decades. The formal name of this software product referred in this document is "Ported Binaries on HPE NonStop servers, Java SE <version>", where version = 1.4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 11. This product is based on Java Standard Edition and leverages the fundamental qualities of HPE NonStop to support mission critical Java language based applications.This hot stuff announces that shipments of these older versions of NSJ will stop effective 30th September 2025. Therefore HPE is asking customers and partners to take the necessary steps appropriate to their HPE NonStop environment at the earliest.All RVUs and RVU-Rs containing NSJ 7, NSJ 8 and certain SPRs of NSJ 11 will become unorderable from the 30th of September 2025 from Scout for NonStop Servers at NonStop e-Services Portal (https://www.hpe.com/servers/nonstop-nep).The following SPRs of NSJ 7, NSJ 8 and NSJ 11, based on the Java Standard Edition, will not be available to download from Scout for NonStop Servers after the 30th of September 2025.* NSJ 6, NSJ 5, NSJ 1.4 - All SPRs of T2766H60, T2766H51, T2766H50 And T2766H10* NSJ 7 32 Bit - All SPRs of T2766L70, T2766H70* NSJ 7 64 Bit - All SPRs of T2866L70 and T2866H70* NSJ 8 32 Bit - All SPRs of T2766L80 and T2766H80* NSJ 8 64 Bit - All SPRs of T2866L80 and T2866H80* NSJ 11 - Modular NSJ (64-bit) - T3066L11^AAA, T3066L11^AAB and T3066L11^AACFollowing SPRs shall also not be available to download from Scout for Nonstop servers after the 30th September 2025. They will be movedto OBSOLETE support level from September 2025.|* NSjmeter - All SPRs of T0866H31, T0866L31 andT0866L50^AAH,T0866L50^AAI and T0866L50^AAJ* ZIUpdater for NSJ (formerly called TZupdater) - All SPRs of T0911from T0911H06^AAA to T0911H06^AAL|* NSJ Infrastructure (NSJI) - All SPRs of T2966H70, T2966L70,T2966H80| and all SPRs of T2966L80 up to T2966L80^ABS and T2966L80^ABT In place of the above, new SPRs will be released both as part of the RVU Revisions (explained in the next section) and individuallyin the Nonstop Scout. See Table 1 in the next section.Although HPE will no longer distribute the above NSJ SPRs and RVUs containing these SPRs, customers, in future, may continue to use the products that are in their possession as on the 30th of September20251.0 RVU RevisionsHPE is planning to produce RVU-R (RVU Revisions) for those L-series RVUs as listed in the following Table 1. A separate communication will be sent out when the RVU-Rs are available. Customers needing the below RVU-Rs can raise requests in Scout for NonStop Servers or contact their account representatives after these RVU-Rs have been released.The RVU-Rs will NOT carry NSJ SPRs based on the Java Standard Edition.These RVU-Rs will continue to be available to order after the 30th of September 2025.Table 1 below shows the RVUs for which RVU-Rs will be made availableCurrent RVU versionRVU-R VersionWill includeWill NOT includeL25.02L25.02.xxNSJ 17(T3066L17^AAG)NSJ8 (T2766L80^ADW)NSJ 8(T2866L80^ADW)T0866L50^AAKT0866L50^AAJT0911L01^AAMT0911H06^AALT2966L80^ABUT2966L80^ABSL24.08L24.08.xxNSJ 17(T3066L17^AAG)NSJ8 (T2766L80^ADW)NSJ 8(T2866L80^ADW)T0866L50^AAKT0866L50^AAJT0911L01^AAMT0911H06^AALT2966L80^ABUT2966L80^ABSL23.08L23.08.xxNSJ 11(T3066L11^AAF)NSJ8 (T2766L80^ADW)NSJ8 (T2866L80^ADW)T0866L50^AAKT0866L50^AAIT0911L01^AAMT0911H06^AALT2966L80^ABUT2966L80^ABQJ06.23J06.23.xxNONENSJ8 (T2766H80^ADP)NSJ8 (T2866H80^ADP)T0866H31^AAFT0911H06^AAJT2966H80^ABR2.0 RVUs with no RVU RevisionsNote that there will be no RVU Revisions (RVU-Rs) released for the following RVUs.* L15.02 through L22.09* J06.03 through J06.22Note also that NONE of the previously released RVU-Rs for these RVUs will be available for ordering, after the 30th of September 2025.Additional NoteThe L25.02 RVU that was released in March 2025 is the last RVU that has carried the NSJ 8 binaries, namely, T2766L80^ADW and T2866L80^ADW.Future NonStop RVUs will not carry any SPR related to NSJ 8.
Nonstop L-Series and Nonstop J-Series RVUs
3.0 Call to actionAll customers and partners MUST take the following steps before the 30th of September 2025.Download any SPRs of NSJ 8 32 bit - T2766 and NSJ 8 64 bit T2866 and NSJ 11 Modular NSJ (64-bit) - T3066L11^AAA/AAB/AAC that you believe you may need in the future, from Scout for NonStop Servers at the NonStop e-Services Portal (https://www.hpe.com/servers/nonstop-nep) latest by the 30th of September 2025. Customers must also download any older SPRs of the products listedbelow, that they deem required in their Nonstop systems, prior tothe 30th of September 2025.* NSjmeter - T0866H31, T0866L31 and T0866L50* TZupdater - T0911* NSJ Infrastructure (NSJI)-T2966H70,T2966L70,T2966H80 and T2966L80Submit requests in Scout for NonStop Servers for any RVU / RVU-R that carried the old NSJ versions listed above, at the beginning of the detailed description. NONE of the existing RVUs or RVU-Rs that contain those old NSJ versions will be available to order after the 30th of September 2025. Only the RVU Revisions (RVU-R) listed in Table 1 will be made available.If you need the latest L-series RVU with NSJ 8 present in it, then place an order for the L25.02 RVU immediately. This RVU will not be available after the 30th of September 2025.You may also contact your NonStop account sales & presales representatives and account support managers and place orders for the necessary RVUs or for help on downloading or ordering any of theolder SPRsCustomers are urged to migrate at the earliest to the NSJ 17 release that is based on OpenJDK 17. NSJ 17 is shipped as part of the L24.08 and L25.02 RVUs. Customers can also upgrade to NSJ 11 SPR T3066L11^AAF which is based on OpenJDK 11 and was shipped as part of the L23.08 RVU. However, note that NSJ 11 is already in MATURE support level and will move to LIMITED support level in Feb-26.If you have any questions or doubts, reach out to your HPE NonStop
Operating Systems Affected:NonStop OS L25.02
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