Hello,
I agree!!!

Bye
  Rainer Tammer

On 12.12.2015 02:39, Roger Deschner wrote:
> A great book is gone. The TSM Administrator's Guide has been obsoleted
> as of v7.1.3. Its priceless collection of how-to information has been
> scattered to the winds, which basically means it is lost. A pity,
> because this book had been a model of complete, well-organized,
> documentation.
>
> The "Solution Guides" are suitable only for planning a new TSM
> installation, and do not address existing TSM sites. Furthermore, they
> are much too narrow, and do not cover real-world existing TSM customers.
> For instance, we use a blended disk and tape solution (D2D2D2T) to
> create a good working compromise between faster restore and storage
> cost.
>
> Following links to topics in the online Information Center is a
> haphazard process at best, which is never repeatable. There is no Index
> or Table of Contents for the online doc - so you cannot even see what
> information is there. Unless you actually log in, there is no way to
> even leave a "trail of breadcrumbs". Browser bookmarks are useless here,
> due to IBM's habit of changing URLs frequently. This is an extremely
> inefficient use of my time in finding out how to do something in TSM.
>
> Search is not an acceptable replacement for good organization. Search is
> necessary, but it cannot stand alone.
>
> Building a "collection" is not an answer to this requirement. It still
> lacks a coherent Index or Table of Contents, so once my collection gets
> sizeable, it is also unuseable. And with each successive version, I will
> be required to rebuild my collection from scratch all over again.
>
> Despite the fact that it had become fairly large, I humbly ask that the
> Administrator's Guide be published again, as a single PDF, in v7.1.4.
>
> Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT 
> edu
> ======I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=====
>
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