Thanks, Remco.  I was indeed referring to 5.1.5.1, not 5.1.  5.1.5.1 does
indeed lift the 32 character limit, but the scheduler still requires you to
be logged in and to have access to an admin-level account.  I was hoping to
hear about any other experiences folks may have had in testing the 5.1.5.1
client.

I don't think Mark's comments about whether Mac's should be supported or
not are helpful to my inquiry.  The point is that IBM has committed to
attempt to support the client, so they should provide software that works
adequately to do the job.  I'd rather not get into a meta-discussion about
whether they should support Macs or not.  We have them here.  They are
important in our environment.  We use TSM because it claims to be an
enterprise-level backup solution, and Macs are an important part of our
enterprise.  A big reason that we used TSM in the first place was that it
supported Macs.

..Paul

At 02:32 PM 11/18/2002 +0100, Remco Post wrote:

On zondag, november 17, 2002, at 08:56 , Mark Stapleton wrote:

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of

Has anyone run this new client thru it's paces?  Is anyone using it,
supporting it, in production?   We are under a time crunch to get this
one
out, and I'm getting the impression that not many have even put this
into
production yet.  If you have the time, I would greatly appreciate your
feedback on where you are with testing/deploying, and what sort
of problems you may have run into.

There have been several threads about the Mac client lately. Here is the
jist of the conclusions:

1. It works, except that:
--It will not back up files whose names exceed 32 characters.

This has changes in 5.1.5.1, filenames longer that 32 chars are no
longer a problem.

--The TSM scheduler will not work unless the console is logged on at
root-level access.

Still true, afaik.

Before you complain, keep in mind that 98% of the machines that TSM is
bought to back up are servers, and Mac servers make up a minuscule
percentage of the servers normally found. (In twelve years of dealing
with
ADSM/TSM/ITSM, I can count the number of Mac servers I've seen in server
room on one hand.) Tivoli builds and maintains TSM to cover the most
common
servers and server OSs; that's where the money is.

Which is completely irrelevant, IMNSHO. We've had that discussion
before, so I won't
start it again.

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