Talking with our District (Regional?) ADSM marketing manager, he
indicated to look for better performance shortly after the first of
August.  Possibly a high-speed link to the server.

Anyone managing index.storsys.ibm.com want to comment?


> (Ray lamented on INDEX.STORSYS.IBM.COM distribution woes)
>
> Don't forget those diskettes IBM forces you to create.  Let's see ...
>
>    o unreliable access (can't connect much of time)
>
>    o incredibly slow (I get between 320 and 2500 bytes per second)
>
>    o unintuitive layout (only interesting stuff is in something
called
>      "fixes"?!)
>
>    o arcane interface (FTP, no WWW) (diskettes, what are diskettes?
>      Ever heard of ZIP and self-extracting EXEs?) (AIX & MAC are OK)
>
>    o out-of-sync mirrors (make new PTF available simultaneously on
>      various servers) (AIX directories may still not match this
week!)
>
>    o people-time intentive processing *after* download. (diskettes)
>      (major changes to installation with each revision, usually
>      unannounced, not discussed) (poor reinstall/upgrade ... no one
cares
>      if their old version gets blown away during upgrade: get rid of
it).
>
> Internet distribution is such a great concept.
>
> IBM and ADSM just don't get it when it comes to INDEX.STORSYS.IBM.COM
>
> On another subject, does ADSM (VM V2 server) have an HESC feature
code yet?
>
> Hard to be an advocate sometimes,
>
> Wayne T. Smith               internet: wts AT maine.maine DOT edu
> Systems Group -- CAPS        University of Maine System
>

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