Hi Clare. The Admin Guide provided a one-stop shopping approach to all functional areas of Spectrum Protect. I think this is what's missing from the current documentation. Clearly the Admin Guide was aimed at an experienced person as opposed to a novice. In an initial Spectrum Protect implementation, the Solutions Guides are of value. However they fall short in supplying guidance and "how-to" or "setup" information to an existing installation. So, even though the Admin Guide became bigger over the releases, the topics are still of extreme value. For example tape is still aa viable media, especially in the light of LTO 7 technology. It fits into large to very large enterprises, yet when it comes to media management of disaster protection implementation, we have no guidance in the new publications. So, I would vote for the return of the Admin Guide, it still is the best collection of implementation and usage guidance for all the various Spectrum Protect aspects. I would prefer one book to a large set of publications that are topic oriented.
Best regards, Joerg Pohlmann -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Clare Byrne Sent: December 15, 2015 13:59 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Bring back TSM Administrator's Guide Please be assured that we in IBM development are listening and are discussing future actions regarding the Administrator's Guide content since the feedback about the 7.1.3 release that did not include that book. I gave some information in a response to that earlier feedback: http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l@vm.marist.edu/msg99286.html We are working on a plan to publish a solution guide for the disk-to-tape architecture next. This should fill in some gaps left by the removal of the Administrator's Guide. Timing of the publication is yet to be determined. We are also discussing how to fill the information needs for those who will not be using one of the four documented architectures. We already point to the 7.1.1 guides from newer releases but we realize this is not ideal. Possible actions include creating additional, supplemental information outside of the solution guides, similar to what we have done for the information about NDMP ( http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.4/srv.admin/r_ndmp.htm l ). What are the most important subjects from the old Administrator's Guide for us to consider? Knowing more specifics about your priorities would be very helpful to us for setting our priorities and plans. Web traffic for the content on IBM Knowledge Center gives us some information but not a complete picture of needs. Meanwhile, to make the 7.1.1 Administrator's Guide PDFs easier to find and download, today we added the five English PDFs to the Tivoli Storage Manager wiki. Find the links to them on this page: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivol i%20Storage%20Manager/page/Version%207.1.1%20PDF%20files%20of%20IBM%20Tivoli %20Storage%20Manager%20documentation The 7.1.1 Administrator's Guide PDFs are also still available in the 711_411_PDFs.zip file that you can find at ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/products/TSM/current/ The available translations are in the 711_411_PDFs_nl.zip file in the same directory. All this content (English and other languages) remains available online in IBM Knowledge Center at http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.1/com.ibm.itsm.srv.com mon.doc/t_server_main.html PDFs for previous releases, including several unsupported levels, are also still available. Start on this page: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivol i%20Storage%20Manager/page/PDF%20documentation (Note: This wiki was unavailable for several days, starting on 11 December. While the wiki is available again, restoration of some pages and links is still in progress. Unfortunately you might find some links that don't work, especially for the unsupported releases. I don't know the projected date for completion.) Clare Byrne Information Development for IBM Spectrum Protect Tucson, AZ US