IBM is the only company that provides this capability for its operating
systems.  Standalone restore on the mainframe, mksysb on AIX.  These are
included free with the OS.  This is a OS vendor issue.  They simply do not
recognize the benefits of the capability and are not focused on SAR because
they do not see it as a problem.

The place that Tivoli needs to step in is make things like mksysb integrated
as a special backup capability that and manage the associated media and
provide a boot strap wrapper to invoke the native system's capability if the
are ever created.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:08 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: BareMetalRestore


There has been a lot of discussion on bare metal restore with TSM and other
products. It seems we're all held hostage to purchase expensive products
that have this capability. Unfortunately in times like this we've all had
our budgets cut, at least I have, and would like our software vendors,
IBM/TIVOLI in this case, to make their products more robust. After all we do
send them maintenance money for software updates and expect the product to
get better.

I'm just wondering how serious IBM is about getting TSM to "WORK" with the
various OS software vendors, i.e. Microsoft, HP, Compaq, Sun and the like,
to find out what it takes to get it's product to do bare metal restores. If
TKG could make it work why can't IBM? Or don't these guys talk to each
other?

My little rant for the day!!!!!
Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail:    <mailto:gillg AT saic DOT com> gillg AT saic DOT com
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