TSM Code Quality

Hi All,

I am just - finally - being allowed to upgrade my TSM server from 4.2 to 5.2.  
So I'm reading the README and come to the recommendation to run CLEANUP 
BACKUPGROUPS.  Now fortunately I was far enough backlevel that I missed all of 
that issue at the time, but it got me thinking about code quality.

Long time subscribers to this list will recall that TSM code quality was 
somewhat average for the whole of the 4.2 series - well it may not have been in 
general, but there were a lot of complaints about many aspects of 4.2 and the 
bugs that bit us all.  Compare that with the number of complaints about 5.1 and 
5.2 - the traffic has dropped off significantly and we are back to talking 
about ptfs that have already been raised and configuration and how-to issues.

That is a dramatic improvement on the behalf of the TSM code cutters/testers 
and QA folks.  And it deserves some recognition.

Well done gang.


Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin
Queensland Health
Brisbane, Australia

ps just one teensy little gripe - you've got to make the library client 
backward compatible with the library server - its really hard to test and 
implement properly when the compatibility is the other way around. 







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