>the list goes on. >A very powerful product. I had CA-Vantage once. It was a powerful tool. And like any powerful tool, it sucked resources. We obtained it at first as a 'free' add-on with a clump of other products we had purchased (foot in the door), and then later had to start paying for it. This was both for license costs and CPU costs. I enjoyed setting up all the automation features and letting it trend everything under the sun. The problem was that I really didn't need everything under the sun. I was micromanaging my storage because I had the tool to let me do it, but that was the only reason. Years later now I've no SRM type product on the mainframe and I'm happy. Almost all my management processes have been automated with various tools like dcollects and sorts and CA-Disk working with SMS.
That said... I've now been tasked with finding an SRM for the SAN management team - of which I'm not really a part, but playing a project management role. You see? The mainframe storage environment is so stable that my time is shifting to help the growing and sometimes hubris SAN folks out. Interesting. Jeffrey Deaver, Engineer, Systems Engineering 651-665-4231 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
