Douglas,

TDS is not so bad but we recommend it for customers having a bunch of
Tivoli products. This is where the product is targeted.
For TSM only reporting try to look at Servergraph/TSM
(www.servergraph.com). It is TSM dedicated tool, less expensive and easier
to install/maintain. Look through adsm.org archives for opinions on it.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant



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My client has a Service Level Agreement with his
customers that assures them of a minimum of one full
(selective) backup of their workstations per year.
There are currently in excess of 1500 workstations and
300 servers that are TSM clients. It is a simple
matter to identify the workstations and schedule TSM
to run the backups. What isn't so simple is to
find/develop a tool that reports success or failure of
scheduled backups via e-mail or some other such means.
My client prefers commercial-off-the-shelf products so
Tivoli Decision Support will, obviously, be
investigated. Does anyone know of any other products
that could be used? I have not heard anything
encouraging about Tivoli Decision Support and if
doesn't work out then I'll be writing my own tool with
the ODBC driver and the TSM API, (probably on a
Windows platform :-(. Has anyone done this
before.

Please don't question the wisdom of promising users a
yearly full backup of their workstations - it's a done
deed!

Thank you.

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