RE: Top 10 reasons why the HMC is a terrible product!

Patricia said: "Why would the developers look at an iSeries or
Windows?  The HMC was initially developed for the
pSeries.  It was only used for iSeries when the p and
i hardware was merged."

I don't really care where it came from.  I'm an iSeries and Windows user
as are 90% of the iSeries installations.  If they require me to use
something new then I shouldn't have to learn an entirely new
environment. If the HMC were optional, which it wasn't when I purchased
my i5, then I wouldn't care.  I just wouldn't have ordered it.

Patricia said: "Yes - Another password - it keeps unauthorized
personnel out.  Better still, it restricts the
un-trained personnel from doing thing that they don't
know how to or should not be doing."

Anyone allowed to use my old twinax console is allowed to use the HMC.
I expect that's the case in most shops.  

Patricia said: "You can control the HMC from anywhere in the
world, certainly anywhere you can reach the network
from. "

That's news to me.  The only thing I can do from Web-SM is run an
instance that's similar to the one on the console.  And, it's a 95mb
download.  If I'm on a trip using a colleague's computer connected via a
56k line that'd be a heck of a long connection.  Yet, I know my
colleague's computer has Window's Remote Desktop installed and I could
have controlled my old console with very snappy response time over 56k.

And, AFAIK, I can't control the HMC remotely.  By control it I mean
install updates, reboot the HMC, etc.  If you know of a way of doing
this, please share!


Patricia said: "Use a DNS server or host table - then you just need
to remember a name."

Point taken.  I will do this.

Patricia said: "I timed mine - 8 seconds.  You may have network
issues if it takes 30."

I think we have HMC issues.  It's darn slow when I'm standing in front
of it.

Patricia said: "I say good job it is NOT like Windows."

To each their own.  My operations staff only knows Windows.  Now I have
to waste precious resources training them in something new that's
non-intuitive.

Patricia said: "If IBM had made it like Windows, you would have had to
put up with all the Windows features, like blue screens, lock-ups,
slow-downs, viruses, etc."

Really?  Do you get regular blue screens and lockups?  That's very
strange because I have tons of apps on my desktop and haven't received a
blue screen or lockup in years.  In fact, I reboot my PC about once or
twice a month. Less frequently than we IPL our iSeries. What are you
doing over there that causes such an unstable desktop?

Patricia asked: "Do you mean automate or schedule?"

Automate.  I want a user to run a command or press a button and have
resources moved from one machine to another.  I understand I can do that
with a $4,000+ third party tool, though.  Great value, HMC!


Chuck
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