Hi Clare. The Admin Guide provided a one-stop shopping approach to all
functional areas of Spectrum Protect. I think this is what's missing from
the current documentation. Clearly the Admin Guide was aimed at an
experienced person as opposed to a novice. In an initial Spectrum Protect
implementation, the Solutions Guides are of value. However they fall short
in supplying guidance and "how-to" or "setup" information to an existing
installation. So, even though the Admin Guide became bigger over the
releases, the topics are still of extreme value. For example tape is still
aa viable media, especially in the light of LTO 7 technology. It fits into
large to very large enterprises, yet when it comes to media management of
disaster protection implementation, we have no guidance in the new
publications. So, I would vote for the return of the Admin Guide, it still
is the best collection of implementation and usage guidance for all the
various Spectrum Protect aspects. I would prefer one book to a large set of
publications that are topic oriented.

Best regards,
Joerg Pohlmann

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Clare Byrne
Sent: December 15, 2015 13:59
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Bring back TSM Administrator's Guide

Please be assured that we in IBM development are listening and are
discussing future actions regarding the Administrator's Guide content since
the feedback about the 7.1.3 release that did not include that book.
I gave some information in a response to that earlier feedback:
http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l AT vm.marist DOT edu/msg99286.html

We are working on a plan to publish a solution guide for the disk-to-tape
architecture next. This should fill in some gaps left by the removal of the
Administrator's Guide. Timing of the publication is yet to be determined.

We are also discussing how to fill the information needs for those who will
not be using one of the four documented architectures. We already point to
the 7.1.1 guides from newer releases but we realize this is not ideal.
Possible actions include creating additional, supplemental information
outside of the solution guides, similar to what we have done for the
information about NDMP (
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.4/srv.admin/r_ndmp.htm
l
).

What are the most important subjects from the old Administrator's Guide for
us to consider? Knowing more specifics about your priorities would be very
helpful to us for setting our priorities and plans. Web traffic for the
content on IBM Knowledge Center gives us some information but not a complete
picture of needs.

Meanwhile, to make the 7.1.1 Administrator's Guide PDFs easier to find and
download, today we added the five English PDFs to the Tivoli Storage Manager
wiki. Find the links to them on this page:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivol
i%20Storage%20Manager/page/Version%207.1.1%20PDF%20files%20of%20IBM%20Tivoli
%20Storage%20Manager%20documentation

The 7.1.1 Administrator's Guide PDFs are also still available in the
711_411_PDFs.zip file that you can find at
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/products/TSM/current/
The available translations are in the 711_411_PDFs_nl.zip file in the same
directory. All this content (English and other languages) remains available
online in IBM Knowledge Center at
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.1/com.ibm.itsm.srv.com
mon.doc/t_server_main.html

PDFs for previous releases, including several unsupported levels, are also
still available. Start on this page:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivol
i%20Storage%20Manager/page/PDF%20documentation

(Note: This wiki was unavailable for several days, starting on 11 December.
While the wiki is available again, restoration of some pages and links is
still in progress. Unfortunately you might find some links that don't work,
especially for the unsupported releases. I don't know the projected date for
completion.)

Clare Byrne
Information Development for IBM Spectrum Protect Tucson, AZ  US