Back in the dark days before I saw the light of TSM :) ... there was another product on another platform. ( Syback on IBM VM, from SyncSort Inc. ) It has a wonderful restore interface, that was easy for END USERS or anyone else to do restores
with. It would allow any user that had WRITE permission to a file to be able to restore it back into place. It would allow any user that had READ permission, to restore a file, redirected to someplace the user has WRITE permissions to. If the user has NO permission to the file, they could not even see it was there. I must admit. I got in trouble by setting it up and making it available to my end users (all 20,000 of them at the time), because it reduced the number of helpdesk tickets significantly :) just to have a file restored. (SyBack used the TSMesque method of keeping a database of what was backed up where, and doing the restores for the user, rather than the program the user ran doing the restores. But it did allow the users to see how far along their restore was, if I remember right.) An interface that allowed this, by using the system permissions would be a great feature. ... Just something to think about for the IBM Developers on the list. ... JC
