Date: October 7, 1999 Time: 1:32 PM
From: Jerry Lawson
The Hartford Insurance Group
(860) 547-2960 jlawson AT thehartford DOT com
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Yesterday I downloaded the TSM 3.7 (Sorry - I'm just an Acronym sort of guy)
Yesterday I downloaded the TSM 3.7 (Sorry - I'm just an Acronym sort of guy)
client for Win32, and installed it on my machine. I was a little bit of
surprised when I found that there was no GUI Admin client - just the GUI
backup client, and CLIs for the Backup and admin. Well, maybe they were
rushed, and couldn't get it rolled out in time, I thought.
Then I tried my old 3.1 Admin GUI, and low and behold, it still seemed fine
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after all, I haven't upgraded the server, so all should be well, right? It
after all, I haven't upgraded the server, so all should be well, right? It
was up until I shut it down, when it took an ANS8003S catastrophic error. A
peek in the error log indicated that a couple of messages were missing from
the repository. OK, I thought - time to report the problem, which I did.
The response, to my surprise, came back that there was no intention of
supporting a GUI for the Admin; we would now have to use a Web Browser
Interface.
I am still trying to see the logic in this. My first inclination is that
some planners/developers have struck upon this as a neat way to avoid a GUI
application - they can now just use HTML and some Java. Probably easier on
their end. The trouble is, I don't think they have taken a look at anyone's
network lately. In my shop, this would mean that I need to keep a Browser
loaded all the time (certainly not a big deal), but I must also now contend
with internet and intranet traffic. Our firewall is not always the best; it
has sometimes caused outages to internet/intranet traffic when regular
TCP/IP
traffic to my server (OS/390) has not been impacted. The bottom line is
that
I expect that response time will be slower, and availability will not be as
good. Is this the way a major product should be going?
I think I understand some of the reasons given for web enabled clients, but
I
certainly do not want to have them as my sole means of access to a native
product. I haven't been monitoring the list actively lately - has this been
a hot discussion item that people are clamoring for? What did I miss? What
do others think?
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Jerry
Jerry
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over..and expecting the results to
be different - Anon.
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