nope.

Years ago we had an Active/Active/Passive Exchange 2003 cluster (don't ask)
and needed to configure it for backup.  The TSM documents were non-obvious
at the time and written for 2 node clusters.  So we opened a ticket and got
instructions back on how to configure a SQL server backup and a link to some
random external forum with some dicussion 'for further reading'.

Being confused we replied, Not SQL, Exchange.  This cycled twice.  The third
time, we got a tersely worded email that said, "I have no idea why you would
want to install Exchange and SQL on the the cluster as it's a bad idea but
here's how you would back it up if you are determined to do something the
wrong way."

Parsing the instructions we got it figured out so we replied, "Thanks, got
the Exchange backups working.  Not sure why you wanted us to install SQL on
the cluster to do this, how do we remove SQL now?"

The resulting phone call cleared up the inital mis-understandings on the
support guys part and we thought it was funny.  Well, except the part about
taking 4 weeks to get the answer which I found annoying.

Admittedly, this was years ago, but this flavors my perception of TSM
support significantly along with the weekly emails from our storage team
attempting to remiedate virtual tape library issues.

Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org



On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:

> Are those archives of the ADSM list out of Marist? There are some very
> smart people on that list. If you use TSM, I'd say that's an almost
> mandatory subscription.
>
> Kurt
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:43, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Well, that depends.  On TSM we often get links to third party discussion
> > board sites with the suggestion to 'try that'.
> >
> > Steven Peck
> > http://www.blkmtn.org
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Webster <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> > WOW, had no idea CICS was still a valid product.
> >>
> >>  One of the things that differentiates the mainframe market from
> >> others is that IBM will support something for more-or-less forever, so
> >> long as you can pay the price.
> >>
> >> -- Ben
> >>
> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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