Oh my, seems like I started a holy war (again) :) Anyway, thanks for the answers, now I see clear ! I started using TSM with Version 4.1.x, so I didn't know there once was a "real" GUI for *SM.
Nevertheless, I would REALLY like such a tool cause I don't like the web gui either. Greetings, Sascha [CUT] > Thomas - I share your frustration. How to get results may require another > approach... > Product such as TSM are Big Bucks, Enterprise products. As such, they are > marketed to the level of people in the organization who can authorize such > expenditures - customer company executives. Executives respond to > Enterprise > issues: competitiveness, saving lots of money, nice reports, trimming > staff. > Issues that affect us lowly technicians way down in the company engine > room, > where we shovel coal into the company boilers, don't get any exposure or > attention. To get such attention, those issues have to get up to a higher > management level where those managers, whom IBM will respond to, will feed > the issues to the IBM rep and thus get attention. You have to expend > efforts > to make a written case, understandable to higher-ups, that the current > product situation is impairing administration and costing the company lost > productivity, etc. > > SHARE is certainly an avenue; but as they say, "Money talks." > > Richard Sims, BU >
