Allen, perhaps a little tangental to your request but this announcement (?) certainly passed me by at the time.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21417165 Regards Ian Smith Oxford University UK On Friday 30 Apr 2010 3:41 pm, Allen S. Rout wrote: > So I just submitted a PMR asking IBM to officially bless some > procedure for getting the client installed on an Ubuntu box. > > I was working on a local doc, which was going to be largely cadged > from the advice in the archives of this list, but figured I'd at least > attempt to do the Right Thing. > > Last time I did that, (the TS3500 CLI) the development team addressed > the issue even before the poor entitlement staffer could figure out > how to label the reqest. :) That one is still pending in entitlement, > by the way. I think she's stumped, but I intend to follow the PMR all > the way to the bitter end. > > > So I figured I'd talk about it here, too, in case some TSM Client type > is listening. *waggle eyebrows*. > > --- > > I also thought I'd try to put my nascent doc up on the WIKI. 'cause > that's what the wiki is for, right? Customer-sourced information at > the fringes of the official work? > > But it took me 30 seconds to get a page image from > > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivolistoragemanager/Home > > which means to me that none of my customers will see whatever I stick > up there. They'll conclude that something in IBM is broken, and move > on, and I'll get complaints that my link is busted. > > > I would love to hear what subterranean forces conspire to make a wiki > from IBM, theoretically an enterprise-class software company, perform > worse than Wikipedia. I've no question they can do it right. But why > did they choose to do it badly? Project out of favor? Too many > public interfaces, so one gets snowed under? > > --- > > So, rather than whining here, I was going to contact someone > associated with the wiki, but I can't find a contact point. I may > just be obtuse: my wife says I'm excellent at not finding things in > plain sight. But the closest I come is the wiki's home page's > creator, "dwblogadmin". But that links to a developerworks page for > one Jay Allen, whose profile and VCARD do not include e.g. email, > phone, whatever. > > So I guess I'll leave an update on his "wall". > > > > > - Allen S. Rout > - Really trying to go through channels.
