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Re: ISC on WinXP or Unix

2005-01-11 11:06:52
Subject: Re: ISC on WinXP or Unix
From: Andrew Raibeck <storman AT US.IBM DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:06:39 -0700
Hi Richard,

Thank you for your comments.

What (if anything) will change, I cannot say, but rest assured that your
and everyone else's concerns are being heard.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 01/08/2005
01:52:29:

> Andrew,
>
> I hope you'll agree that the requirements for ISC/AC are ludicrous, we
> were better of with the old webadmin, without all the new
"functionality".
> If people want to use ISC/AC for managing other apps like Notes etc.
fine,
> but leave us guys which only have to manage TSM servers the old
webadmin.
>
> I've got quite a lot of small cust. with only a relatively small TSM
> environment and I'll convince them to bulk up, just to be able to run
TSM
> 5.3. They'll never need all the new "functionality" (yikes, that sounds
> like MS explaining new Office "functionality" you'll never need).
> So IMHO I think there's a lot of work cut out for IBM in order to get a
> decent 5.3 on the market.
>
> Richard.
>
>
>
>
>
> Andrew Raibeck <storman AT US.IBM DOT COM>
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> 07-01-2005 21:09
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>
>         To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: ISC on WinXP or Unix
>
>
> > Certainly, the
> > ability to run on Windows XP would have been a "must" for the app to
be
> > acceptable to most customers.
>
> The Admin Center is more of a server app than desktop app; it is not
> intended that every TSM administrator run their own instance of
ISC/Admin
> Center. XP may be fine as a desktop machine, but for running server
> applications, most XP systems probably do not have adequate resources
(and
> XP itself isn't really designed to act as a server). XP workstations can
> access the TSM Admin Center via web browser, so I'm not sure I
understand
> why this by itself would be a show-stopper. (For what it is worth, the
> Admin Center is supported on the same Windows OSes as the TSM server.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy
>
> Andy Raibeck
> IBM Software Group
> Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
> Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
> Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
>
> The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
> The command line is your friend.
> "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.

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