IBM's failure to spontaneously provide a TSM Linux client for prevalent, modern CPU architectures is certainly a marked departure from the company's early pronouncements of Linux being a strategic direction meriting concerted product development.
TSM client product management has markedly failed in its role to both meet customer needs and keep the product competitive in a challenging marketplace of backup products. In a properly run software organization it should never be necessary for customers to have to file a request for intrinsic functionality in the product line and then wait further years for it to appear: timely development would be a natural result of strategic product planning. The absence of a 64-bit client is a remarkable failing. Richard Sims On Jan 5, 2010, at 4:47 AM, Michael Green wrote: > Folks, turns out that whereas 64 bit clients for Linux PPC and Zseries > are already available, it's not for x64 arch. Moreover, there are > currently no plans for development the 64 bit version of BA client for > Linux x64. > > Just to remind you that x64 client is required to overcome the 4GB > memory limit of the 32 bit BA client on Linux x64. Such ability would > allow for backup of much more objects within the same scheduled > process without having to resort to the help of awkward workarounds > such MEMORYEFFICIENTBACKUP. > > The TSM support person (who was very responsive by the way) who > received my PMR is ready to file a so called "Design Change Request" > on my behalf. Within that request I need to formulate a Business > Justification, where I highlight how important this could be to my > business to get such a change in the future. > > As I'm not very good at writing "Business Justifications", I would > appreciate your input/ideas on this matter. > -- > Warm regards, > Michael Green