I like the new clients a lot, but I think the lack of domain support in the
gui is a show stopper.  I will not distribute them until it is implemented.
(Or pay for them -- On the MVS platform, clients charges go from $2 to $5,
and I have 1,000 clients).

What I would like is that the defaults in the gui be set such that the user
need only click once to start an incremnental backup of the domain-defined
drives, or if domain is ommitted, all local disks excluding CD's.  In other
words, the way version 2 clients worked.

Please release a ptf quickly with this fix.

Bill Colwell
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Cambridge Ma.

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Author: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
Subject: First impressions of V3 clients.....
11-05-1997 02:13 PM

Jerry,

Thanks for your feedback on the new Win32 V3 client.  I will
try to address some of your concerns.

(stuff ommitted)

>In defense of the design, the old design presented the CD ROM and Network
>drives too, but the true local drives (round brown spinning DASD) were
>treated as LOCAL and they were highlighted in blue.  A customer could
>always
>select something else, but the default (and what was usually taken) was to
>do
>nothing.  The new design requires a user to make a selection - and if there
>is a choice - a user will make the wrong decision too often.

We need to honor the domain statement in the options file like we did in V2.
The question is whether it would be preferable to preselect all the drives
in the domain and have the user de-select any files/dirs that are not desired
for backup, or to perhaps provide a "domain incremental backup" menu option
under
the actions menu.  I'm soliciting input as to what would be preferable.  We're
targeting our next PTF to include this function in the GUI.

(stuff ommitted)

Regards,

Mike Dile
IBM Storage Systems Division
ADSM Client Development
Internet: mikedile AT us.ibm DOT com