Hi Stephan,

Our concern is about Administrator's Guide, not Administrator's Reference wich 
is hopefully still available.

Last available version for this Guide is 7.1.1.

-- 
Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي
Erwann SIMON

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De: "Stefan Bender" <stefan.bender AT DE.IBM DOT COM>
À: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Envoyé: Lundi 14 Décembre 2015 15:25:36
Objet: Re: [ADSM-L] Bring back TSM Administrator's Guide

Hi all,
the Admin Guides are still there. May be a little complicate to identify. 
If you look in this page "Server documentation in PDF files": 
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.4/srv.common/r_pdf_srv.html?lang=en
 
, 
you can find a row for "Using commands and options " for example. These 
point to the admin guides, like 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/api/content/nl/en-us/SSGSG7_7.1.4/srv.reference/b_srv_admin_ref_linux.pdf
 
for Linux. 

I hope that helps. 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards

                Stefan Bender

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From:   Rick Adamson <RickAdamson AT SEGROCERS DOT COM>
To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date:   14.12.2015 15:18
Subject:        Re: [ADSM-L] Bring back TSM Administrator's Guide
Sent by:        "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>



I agree.... many times I have had to refer to one of the PDF's after IBM 
has made the decision to remove it from availability. 
They are a priceless resource when dealing with an issue on a version that 
is no longer supported and hence online doco has been removed.

-Rick Adamson
 904.783.5264

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Roger Deschner
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 8:39 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Bring back TSM Administrator's Guide

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.=====