Hello, I agree!!! Bye Rainer Tammer
On 12.12.2015 02:39, Roger Deschner wrote: > 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 rog...@uic.edu > ======I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.===== > >
