I'm glad that the last PDFs of this valuable book at Version 7.1.1 are
being made more widely available. I have already downloaded that PDF to
the USB thumb drive I carry around everywhere, for access regardless of
the network condition. This could be in a disaster recovery scenario, or
at a client node site where I might need to create a new account and
password just to access the net and read the doc. The fact that it was
deemed necessary to make this PDF more widely available, points out the
problem.
If you are hinting that you are considering publishing an updated 7.1.5
Administrator's Guide, that would be great! An important thing to update
would be container storage pools. When to use them, how they compare to
other types of storage pools (disk, file, tape, VTL...), and how to set
them up and manage them. Perhaps include them in a new column in Table 5
on Page 77 of the 7.1.1 Admin Guide. Another would be deduplication,
which has a lot of new powerful features in 7.1.4, which will make it
attractive to users who have not deduplicated before.
I rarely use the online Information Center. I find its hierarchical
micro-partitioning of information to be way too narrowly focused,
leading me to overlook obvious solutions to the problem at hand.
Especially new solutions such as container storage pools and the new
features of deduplication. The Information Center is also especially
poor in the client area. I always go to the PDFs first, even when online
with fast network access. Therefore I can't give feedback in the way you
suggest.
I tried the Custom PDF file creation facility, and I found it
disappointing. The resulting PDF has only topics I could think of, and
omits the ones I really need to solve a problem. It requires
clairvoyance to make a useful PDF containing the answer to a problem
that I haven't had yet, and it has no index.
So I am going to reiterate what I said before: Update the
Administrator's Guide for 7.1.5, and keep it up-to-date going forward as
a single book. This book is a key asset for the entire Spectrum Protect
product, especially as existing customers seek to utilize features they
haven't used before, and as new customers explore the incredible depth
of features in the product.
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.=====
On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Clare Byrne wrote:
>Following up on this thread, the 7.1.1 Administrator's Guide PDFs are now
>available in IBM Knowledge Center at
>http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.1/com.ibm.itsm.tsm.doc/r_pdfs_tsm.html
>This is in addition to where they were available before, in the .zip file
>and on the Tivoli Storage Manager wiki. We hope this makes it easier to
>find and access the 7.1.1 guides.
>
>A reminder: We are still very much interested in hearing about what the
>most important subjects from the 7.1.1 Administrator's Guide are for us to
>consider for updates. Knowing more specifics about your priorities is very
>important to us to set priorities.
>
>One way to give such feedback privately: Go to any topic (in any version)
>for Tivoli Storage Manager in IBM Knowledge Center and click the Feedback
>link in the menu bar at the very bottom. If your comments exceed the
>1000-character limit in the feedback form, you can include your email
>address in the feedback and ask us to contact you.
>
>Clare Byrne
>Information Development for IBM Spectrum Protect
>Tucson, AZ US
>
>
>__________________
>
>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.html
>).
>
>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/Tivoli%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.common.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/Tivoli%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
>
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