IBM is the only company that provides this capability for its operating systems. Standalone restore on the mainframe, mksysb on AIX. These are included free with the OS. This is a OS vendor issue. They simply do not recognize the benefits of the capability and are not focused on SAR because they do not see it as a problem.
The place that Tivoli needs to step in is make things like mksysb integrated as a special backup capability that and manage the associated media and provide a boot strap wrapper to invoke the native system's capability if the are ever created. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BareMetalRestore There has been a lot of discussion on bare metal restore with TSM and other products. It seems we're all held hostage to purchase expensive products that have this capability. Unfortunately in times like this we've all had our budgets cut, at least I have, and would like our software vendors, IBM/TIVOLI in this case, to make their products more robust. After all we do send them maintenance money for software updates and expect the product to get better. I'm just wondering how serious IBM is about getting TSM to "WORK" with the various OS software vendors, i.e. Microsoft, HP, Compaq, Sun and the like, to find out what it takes to get it's product to do bare metal restores. If TKG could make it work why can't IBM? Or don't these guys talk to each other? My little rant for the day!!!!! Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154
