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Re: [ADSM-L] Who is using Admin Center ? >> Specifics, please re: AC improvements

2009-11-16 14:55:04
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Who is using Admin Center ? >> Specifics, please re: AC improvements
From: Wanda Prather <wanda.prather AT JASI DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:54:08 -0500
Gergana,

Thank you for your concern.
I will forward specifics with screen shots to you separately.  I hope others
take the time to do it as well!

Regards
Wanda Prather

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Gergana V Markova <gmarkova AT us.ibm DOT 
com>wrote:

> Francisco, can you be more specific and provided constructive suggestions
> of what is not working for you, and what specific improvements/ task
> addition can benefit the daily work of a TSM administrator in the
> Administration Center GUI?
>
> Comparing the AC 6.1 with XIV, I assume you were impressed with the
> simplicity of the interface. Admin Center supports TSM, which is rather
> complex -- anything specific you see to adopt from XIV that fits the Admin
> Center context?
>
> Thanks in advance for your feedback.
>
> Regards/Pozdravi, Gergana
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> From:
> Francisco Molero <fmolero AT YAHOO DOT COM>
> To:
> ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Date:
> 11/06/2009 03:44 AM
> Subject:
> [ADSM-L] Who is using Admin Center ?
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Yesterady I was working with new TSM AC 6.1. and I was getting several
> errors from Admin Center 6.1. Twice I got to restart the TSM server/ac
> Machine becuase TSM AC hanged. I suffered the TSM AC 5.3.. But several
> years late. In my opinion,  the TSM AC look & feel is not so good, it is
> too complicate to use for new and even for experienced users.
>
> I think TSM Manager and others software is an alternative for
> experimented users but the first impression for the new users is to
> drive off  TSM. Until now TSM users don't claim enought about AC..
>
> I would like to know how many TSM administrators are using the AC, and how
> many people are using only AC without TSM Admin command line ( dsmadmc or
> dsmadmc -console). This will be an example if the TSM AC GUI is good or
> people only uses AC for two o three admin tasks.
>
> IBM should solve this problem now and IBM should improve the TSM GUI. One
> example is the XIV Gui.
>
> I also think, IBM should simplify TSM too much, each day other SW are
> doing the Backup tasks in a simple way and TSM needs a lot of
> configurations.
>
> Regards,
>
> Fran
>