From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Dale Jolliff
>I and others have been complaining about that horrible 
>IBM/Tivoli web site
>for years, and I haven't seen IBM budge on something that 
>simple, so why
>do any of us expect them to react to making changes in the product?

We've all heard people bitch about the profound changes in the Tivoli
and IBM web sites in the last 18 months, and how horrible they are now. 

Try wandering around the Veritas and Legato sites for awhile; you can't
even download Legato documentation unless you're a current, registered
user of their products. Personally, aside from the irritation of having
to redefine some bookmarks, the IBM site actually makes more sense now.
Compare: finding device drivers for IBM xSeries servers vs. finding
device drivers for Gateway and Dell servers.

(I used to ridicule the HP site as well--used to be damned hard to find
printer drivers--but they got better.)

>How 5.3 could be released with the GUI interface on a windows only
>platform is beyond me.
>The GUI was useful for training newbies and what not and it did make
>policy and management class updates a bit easier, but I sure 
>wouldn't use it for production work.

Read your documentation again. You can run the ISC and TSM
Administration Console on AIX as well. And you'll eventually use the
same copy of ISC to administer Tivoli SAN Manager, Tivoli Storage
Resource Manager, IBM SAN Volume Controller, the entire Tivoli Framework
suite, and so on.

Yeah, yeah, yeah--the ISC is slow and kludgy, and an outright resource
hog, but then I always thought the "old" TSM web interface wasn't any
more desirable. I rarely use it, myself, and I don't teach it either.

"Yo ho! Yo ho! It's the command line for me!" 
(with apologies to Captain Jack Sparrow)

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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Office 262.521.5627