ADSM-L

Re: [ADSM-L] Client support for Ubuntu?

2010-04-30 12:29:28
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Client support for Ubuntu?
From: Ian Smith <ian.smith AT OUCS.OX.AC DOT UK>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:28:43 +0100
Allen,

perhaps a little tangental to your request but this announcement (?)
certainly passed me by at the time.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21417165

Regards
Ian Smith
Oxford University
UK

On Friday 30 Apr 2010 3:41 pm, Allen S. Rout wrote:
> So I just submitted a PMR asking IBM to officially bless some
> procedure for getting the client installed on an Ubuntu box.
>
> I was working on a local doc, which was going to be largely cadged
> from the advice in the archives of this list, but figured I'd at least
> attempt to do the Right Thing.
>
> Last time I did that, (the TS3500 CLI) the development team addressed
> the issue even before the poor entitlement staffer could figure out
> how to label the reqest. :) That one is still pending in entitlement,
> by the way.  I think she's stumped, but I intend to follow the PMR all
> the way to the bitter end.
>
>
> So I figured I'd talk about it here, too, in case some TSM Client type
> is listening. *waggle eyebrows*.
>
> ---
>
> I also thought I'd try to put my nascent doc up on the WIKI.  'cause
> that's what the wiki is for, right?  Customer-sourced information at
> the fringes of the official work?
>
> But it took me 30 seconds to get a page image from
>
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivolistoragemanager/Home
>
> which means to me that none of my customers will see whatever I stick
> up there.  They'll conclude that something in IBM is broken, and move
> on, and I'll get complaints that my link is busted.
>
>
> I would love to hear what subterranean forces conspire to make a wiki
> from IBM, theoretically an enterprise-class software company, perform
> worse than Wikipedia.  I've no question they can do it right.  But why
> did they choose to do it badly?  Project out of favor?  Too many
> public interfaces, so one gets snowed under?
>
> ---
>
> So, rather than whining here, I was going to contact someone
> associated with the wiki, but I can't find a contact point.  I may
> just be obtuse: my wife says I'm excellent at not finding things in
> plain sight.  But the closest I come is the wiki's home page's
> creator, "dwblogadmin".  But that links to a developerworks page for
> one Jay Allen, whose profile and VCARD do not include e.g. email,
> phone, whatever.
>
> So I guess I'll leave an update on his "wall".
>
>
>
>
> - Allen S. Rout
> - Really trying to go through channels.

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