I agree - it is a circular mess!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Sims" <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: Link to TSM Clients


> >The web site is a huge improvement over the old site in many ways...
>
> The changes in the Tivoli web site may have improved some things, but
> in many ways things are far worse for anyone trying to use that site.
> In the past (about a year and a half ago) it used to be relatively easy
> to find things, and to position to them.  Now it's almost impossible to
> readily find things on the web site - as has been the subject of MANY
> postings.  The TSM manuals are a case in point...  In the past we used
> to be able to go to a page and, boom, there were all the manuals, ready
> to view: just pick one and you're there.  Now you have to plow through
> the absurd "Tivoli Information Center", position to the "S" region,
> then try to locate anything TSM amongst other Tivoli clutter, and then
> you have to go from place to place to look at Messages, then Server docs,
> then separately to Clients.  This is patently absurd, and points to
> everything that's wrong with Tivoli thinking.  They really seem to
> believe that this chaos is beneficial to customers!?  We're back to
> the old IBM attitude of defining what customers need rather than
> discerning needs, listening, and providing actually useful solutions.
>
> I despair for the * Storage Manager product as long as it is under
> the generic amalgam called Tivoli.
>
>   Richard Sims, BU
>