Hi, I know buying a 3d party product should not be the alternative. Anyway, we are very happy with the old dsmadm.exe 3.1.0.8 (old GUI), plus tsmmanager and/or servergraph !
Best regards, René LAMBELET NESTEC SA GLOBE - Global Business Excellence Central Support Center SD/ESN Av. Nestlé 55 CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) tél +41 (0)21 924 35 43 fax +41 (0)21 924 13 69 local K4-104 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. -----Original Message----- From: Sascha Askani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,22. August 2003 20:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: *Real* admin interface (Was: q vol f=g ??!?) 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 >