Thanks for this, James. I shall also most most certainly be staying
with nv-l. I have looked at the newsgroups since Oliver first posted
his bombshell about a week ago, and I signed up for the NetView, TEC and
Switch Analyzer newsgroups. The only thing that has been posted to any
of these newsgroups in a week is a note from me on the NetView one,
pointing folk at this nv-l mail list.
For those people who also use other Tivoli products and the tme10 mail
list, is someone also going to "boilerplate" the other Tivoli product
release notes to try and circumnavigate tme10????
I guess the other question for the user community is whether they are
comfortable with IBM continuing to host these mail lists, especially
given the service disruptions over the last few months?? I would hate
some "Tivoli executive" to order the "de-creation" of the mail lists.......
Cheers,
Jane
James Shanks wrote:
Folks,
I sent a posting to this list a couple days ago, which I don't seem to
be able to find any more, so I'll try again.
I inquired about this and was told that a Tivoli executive had
ordered the creation of this NetView newsgroup so that he could say
that all Tivoli products, like all IBM products, had one.
Furthermore, the mention of the newsgroup in the next version of each
product's Release Notes was also mandated. No one in my group nor in
NetView development even saw this boiler plate before the ID group
replaced that book on the CD. It was not considered technical
content and therefore was not given to them to review. That's why the
nv-l list was not mentioned there as well. I have already escalated
this and I think that will be rectified in the Release Notes to the
first FixPack for 7.1.4.
As for the newsgroup itself, even the people who created it say that
they do not think of it is a replacement for the nv-l list, which they
admit is monitored by people with much more expertise than any
newsgroup is.
So my advice is that, as users, you "vote with your feet" as it were
and use the vehicle you prefer. This list is your forum after all;
it was started by customers for customers, and until it suddenly
needed a home and a Tivoli guy volunteered to rescue it, it was not
maintained by IBM at all. If you choose not to participate on the
newsgroup, you need not. I don't plan to, myself.
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
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