Adrie,

I totally agree with you. I've also test installed it (or at least I
tried) it on WXP, Linux (FC3) and AIX 5.2. The only installing which
succeeded was the AIX (it only took 3 hours to install the ISC and AC).
It is also very annoying to have a /tmp of 750MB+, just for the sake of
the installation.

Lets hope IBM brings back the Webinterface asap, because I did not see
advantages of the ISC yet.
When I test created a diskpool volume of 5GB on my Linux TSM 5.3 server it
failed at almost 5GB with no apperent reason. When I did it manually (long
live dsmadmc) it went just fine.

Richard.





Adrie van Tuyl <vantuyl AT XS4ALL DOT NL>
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At 20:24 1/6/2005, you wrote:
>On Thursday 06 January 2005 13:14, Warren, Matthew (Retail) wrote:
> > ..I'm glad to hear. I use a suite of python scripts that ive put
> > together / migrated from other shells over the last 5 years or more. I
> > would be frustrated  if dsmadmc dissappeared...
> >
> > Is this a possibility for future release?
>I don't know and I hope not.  I think 99.9% of the TSM customers use
dsmadmc
>in some sort of scripting language to automate/monitor TSM.  I don't
think
>IBM can risk to loose 99.9% of it's TSM customers.
>
>Stef

This seems they do not care.
Probably 90 % or more (maybe even 99.9%) of the customers did use the
Webinterface of the TSM server.
Many of the customers (>80%?) do not have an ISC.
So these customers are forced into setting up an ISC, preferably on other
hardware than on the TSM server because of the resource utilization of the
ISC. IMHO this does not make any sence at all.

I tried to set up an ISC in a test environment. I tried a PII 400 with 384
MB. On this machine TSM 5.2.3.5 works perfectly for testing purposes.
I did not manage to install the ISC with the TSM admin (after an 8 hours
of
trying), and for now I don't want to put any effort in it because I don't
have the equipment nor the time.

For the people who managed to get ISC working; is it worth it? Is the TSM
admin dramatically improved? Have all the wishes which we see come by in
this group come true?

I sincerely hope we get our webinterface back.

Adrie