>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:28:06 -0500, Richard Mochnaczewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> said:
> I had some problems with the setup of the Admin Console. I placed a > call with IBM, [...] The ranting about the ISC was legion in Oxford, and clearly a source of frustration for the IBMers there; there were many questions or "I-want" type statements which were answered with "We're doing that in the Admin Console". It's clear that they've placed a lot of effort and thought into the AC design. I'm starting to think that we, TSM admins, are just too varied a bunch to have our needs met within the constraints of one such system and the ideology that must be imposed with it. Maybe IBM can just ditch the GUI idea entirely, and leave the market to the 3rd party tools. Or maybe they can ditch the idea that the GUI is 'full featured', and deploy something intended to coddle folks who are never going to make the effort, and omit the hard bits. I'm in sympathy with the desire to web-ify many administrative aspects of many IBM tools under a unified umbrella. But the One Ring to Rule Them All attitude has well-documented failure modes, and nobody wants to be Sauron at the end. It gets worse when the One Ring is as (pardon me) shaky and unmaintainable as Websphere. We've had deep, deep _DEEP_ problems with that product. A low point was when a level 2 tech in all seriousness told us he wasn't sure the product supported HTTP. No, really. I can't make that up. Our tech replied that maybe they should change the product name to just "Sphere". I've been through the AIX install of the ISC and AC on a disposable LPAR several times now; even with a fresh clean box and support on the line, we've not been able to get a working console up, which I find more amusing than irritating, any more. - Allen S. Rout