So I just submitted a PMR asking IBM to officially bless some procedure for getting the client installed on an Ubuntu box.
I was working on a local doc, which was going to be largely cadged from the advice in the archives of this list, but figured I'd at least attempt to do the Right Thing. Last time I did that, (the TS3500 CLI) the development team addressed the issue even before the poor entitlement staffer could figure out how to label the reqest. :) That one is still pending in entitlement, by the way. I think she's stumped, but I intend to follow the PMR all the way to the bitter end. So I figured I'd talk about it here, too, in case some TSM Client type is listening. *waggle eyebrows*. --- I also thought I'd try to put my nascent doc up on the WIKI. 'cause that's what the wiki is for, right? Customer-sourced information at the fringes of the official work? But it took me 30 seconds to get a page image from http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivolistoragemanager/Home which means to me that none of my customers will see whatever I stick up there. They'll conclude that something in IBM is broken, and move on, and I'll get complaints that my link is busted. I would love to hear what subterranean forces conspire to make a wiki from IBM, theoretically an enterprise-class software company, perform worse than Wikipedia. I've no question they can do it right. But why did they choose to do it badly? Project out of favor? Too many public interfaces, so one gets snowed under? --- So, rather than whining here, I was going to contact someone associated with the wiki, but I can't find a contact point. I may just be obtuse: my wife says I'm excellent at not finding things in plain sight. But the closest I come is the wiki's home page's creator, "dwblogadmin". But that links to a developerworks page for one Jay Allen, whose profile and VCARD do not include e.g. email, phone, whatever. So I guess I'll leave an update on his "wall". - Allen S. Rout - Really trying to go through channels.