Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the answer. I still think TSM is a fantasic solution, I'm just
not happy with the way the ISC/AC looks and works. IMHO IBM has not
delivered what they promissed, sure the screens and the functionality look
wonderfull but they never told us that you have to bulk up your management
workstation (let alone that on Unix you'll need 750MB!!!!! free space in
/tmp, just for installation purposes (your not MS are you ;-) ).

I hope to see some improvement soon and hopefully get the webadmin back.

Richard.





Andrew Raibeck <storman AT US.IBM DOT COM>
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Hi Richard,

Thank you for your comments.

What (if anything) will change, I cannot say, but rest assured that your
and everyone else's concerns are being heard.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 01/08/2005
01:52:29:

> Andrew,
>
> I hope you'll agree that the requirements for ISC/AC are ludicrous, we
> were better of with the old webadmin, without all the new
"functionality".
> If people want to use ISC/AC for managing other apps like Notes etc.
fine,
> but leave us guys which only have to manage TSM servers the old
webadmin.
>
> I've got quite a lot of small cust. with only a relatively small TSM
> environment and I'll convince them to bulk up, just to be able to run
TSM
> 5.3. They'll never need all the new "functionality" (yikes, that sounds
> like MS explaining new Office "functionality" you'll never need).
> So IMHO I think there's a lot of work cut out for IBM in order to get a
> decent 5.3 on the market.
>
> Richard.
>
>
>
>
>
> Andrew Raibeck <storman AT US.IBM DOT COM>
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> 07-01-2005 21:09
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>
>         To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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>         Subject:        Re: ISC on WinXP or Unix
>
>
> > Certainly, the
> > ability to run on Windows XP would have been a "must" for the app to
be
> > acceptable to most customers.
>
> The Admin Center is more of a server app than desktop app; it is not
> intended that every TSM administrator run their own instance of
ISC/Admin
> Center. XP may be fine as a desktop machine, but for running server
> applications, most XP systems probably do not have adequate resources
(and
> XP itself isn't really designed to act as a server). XP workstations can
> access the TSM Admin Center via web browser, so I'm not sure I
understand
> why this by itself would be a show-stopper. (For what it is worth, the
> Admin Center is supported on the same Windows OSes as the TSM server.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy
>
> Andy Raibeck
> IBM Software Group
> Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
> Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
> Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
>
> The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
> The command line is your friend.
> "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.