Hi all,
the Admin Guides are still there. May be a little complicate to identify.
If you look in this page "Server documentation in PDF files":
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.4/srv.common/r_pdf_srv.html?lang=en
,
you can find a row for "Using commands and options " for example. These
point to the admin guides, like
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/api/content/nl/en-us/SSGSG7_7.1.4/srv.reference/b_srv_admin_ref_linux.pdf
for Linux.
I hope that helps.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards
Stefan Bender
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From: Rick Adamson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: 14.12.2015 15:18
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Bring back TSM Administrator's Guide
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]>
I agree.... many times I have had to refer to one of the PDF's after IBM
has made the decision to remove it from availability.
They are a priceless resource when dealing with an issue on a version that
is no longer supported and hence online doco has been removed.
-Rick Adamson
904.783.5264
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Roger Deschner
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 8:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ADSM-L] Bring back TSM Administrator's Guide
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 [email protected]
======I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=====
