I have a few years experience with TSM and always found it to be pretty fast and very reliable. Like most IBM software, it looks overly complicated and obtuse a

I have a few years experience with TSM and always found it to be pretty fast and very reliable. Like most IBM software, it looks overly complicated and obtuse at first glance, but once you overcome a few "standard" obstacles(1), you realize there's some pretty serious engineering under there and it's actually quite likable. It's not cheap though... (1) IBM software seems so be designed by smart people for really hard scenarios, but it all gets buried under tons of enterprisey crap and UIs designed by monkeys... 1. Drop the excruciatingly slow and clunky web console and learn to use the CLI (really, it's horrible); 2. Resist the urge to throw your arms up in disgust because the syntax and concepts seem foreign (it probably won't look so foreign to mainframe people, and it isn't actually bad, just different); 3. ?? 4. Realize the CLI and storage concepts are actually very powerful.