Back to basics...

[Rigido]

Hi all,
I started using this product when it was called ADSM and I was working for IBM. Did some courses and a lot of "Training On The Job" then started to deploy solutions (I think I deployed the first "server-to-server" DRM solution in Rome in 1997) and some L1 and L2 support.
Since then I never had courses for new functions and I had to study and search info by myself. Well, I read enough to stop using "START_RECLAIM" and "STOP_RECLAIM" admin schedules and start using "RECLAIM_STGP" but sometimes I feel I miss something, and I'm not using TSM at "full force" sometimes it depends on customers that will use TSM for backup/restore operations with no advanced features like node replication, cloud storage and so on.
Moreover I think I could have some wrong certainties, maybe coming from ADSM times (I was pretty sure it was impossible to modify retention for archived data until one month ago )
Do you know if there is any IBM (or other education) course to "fill the gap" and have a full overview of new TSM functions and advanced features?

Thanks.

 

[marclant]

There isn't one all encompassing. However, at the beginning of each manual/InfoCenter, there's a what's new in this release. But you would have to go back to all manuals for every version from a ways back until now. Plus with 6.3 and 7.1, there are new features included in each fixpack. so that's a lot of places to look.

The TSM Wiki does provide info too: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli Storage Manager