Installation of .net Framework 4.8 on Gen 8.5 proxy/web servers

[Marios Tofarides]

Good morning everyone,

There has been a need to install the .net Framework 4.8 on our Gen 8.5  proxy/web servers.

We have Windows Server 2012 with .net Framework 4.6.2 installed at the moment.

Does anyone know if it is safe to do that? 

Regards,

Marios

[Tarek Kamal]

Hi Marios,
What is your visual studio version?

from my perspective with proxy/web servers. I don't think you need to .NET Framework 4.8 
.NET Framework 3.5 is enough maybe with visual studio.NET2019 will be auto-update 

[Marios Tofarides]

Hey Tarek,

We use Visual Studio 2012.
We don't want 4.8 for Gen purposes. We want it for different reasons that have nothing to do with Gen.

Marios

[Lynn Williams]

Hi Marios,

Per Tarek's comment the now EOS Gen 8.5 was only ever supported for NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (CLR 2.0), so if you are building Gen 8.5 .NET applications that would be the version you would be using: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-mainframe-software/devops/ca-gen/8-5/technical-requirements/third-party-software-version.html

Multiple versions of .NET Framework can co-exist on the same server and so you likely currently have 3.5 co-existing with 4.6.2 (CLR 4). Therefore moving from 4.6 to 4.8 (both CLR 4) should not be a problem as far as Gen is concerned as long as the 3.5 version is still there.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/migration-guide/how-to-determine-which-versions-are-installed

Regards,

 

Lynn

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Lynn Williams
Senior Principal Support Engineer
Broadcom Software
Australia
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[Marios Tofarides]

OK Lynn, 

Thank you,
We'll try it and see what happens :)

Marios