Hi,

I would also agree to that! The opening of the API to the community
would be the best IBM could do.
We have here one TSM Server and I (as the administrator) do most of the
work in the command-line. We have some people in the operating that also
do a few things like drm, querying processes, etc in the gui. It doesn't
make sense to put up a new server running websphere for this. With an
open API it would be easy to make a fast web tool fitting out needs.

The IBM has proved that they are not able to build useful user
interfaces. I just have to look at how they do server virtualization.
When you use vmware esx server you have one consistent quite fast web
interface for all tasks you need (running on the same server). When you
use a p550 for virtualization you have a HMC server with an ugly, slow
and unstable Java GUI, a command-line over ssh on the HMC, an extra web
gui for the ASM menu and a VIO server with command-line (with a shell
were you can't use backspace by default and where the up-key doesn't
show the last command).

I better stop now....

Volker


Am Montag, den 06.03.2006, 13:55 -0500 schrieb Allen S. Rout:
> >> On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:55:32 +1000, Steven Harris <steve AT STEVENHARRIS 
> >> DOT INFO> said:
>
>
> > Please, IBM, document the new admin api and open it up to us so we
> > can write out own tools in PHP, perl, Erlang or whatever else we
> > want.  It will allow *us* to develop the interfaces *we* need, and
> > as you must maintain the API for the ISC anyway it will cost next to
> > nothing.
>
>
> Um. "Me, Too" ?
>
>
> It seems IBM's got an opportunity here, to co-opt an absolutely huge
> amount of community work.  I could see targeted third-party apps for a
> huge scale of "users" (TSM admins), ranging from handholding for the
> admin who wants to remain ignorant, to the intricate mechanisms
> pedants like me tend to generate.
>
> All for free.
>
> And then, N years forward, if someone has clearly captured the spirit
> of the TSM admin in a web app, IBM can just buy them.
>
> My money is on no clear winner; we're still fighting Emacs/VI, and
> that's the skill-class of users you're dealing with.
>
>
> - Allen S. Rout
> - You have to ask?  EMACS, of course.  M-x administer-storage-server ;)
>