Not sure. We have always used "expire inventory resource=8" with no issues until 6.3.6.000
Since the APAR info is behind IBM's support wall (don't get me started on the inability to get firmware updates for my IBM TS3500 library from IBM), I don't know if I can post it here. Hopefully someone from IBM can chime-in. On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Henrik Ahlgren <pa...@seestieto.com> wrote: > Thanks Zoltan, – I somehow missed your earlier posting about this topic. > I'll try to get my hands on the IT17642 article (why on earth does IBM > show it only to "authorized" users? I hate this vendor BS.). > > But in addition to slowness, it seems that EXPIRE INVENTORY NODE=* at > least attempts to expire all nodes, unlike EXPIRE INVENTORY without the > NODE or DOMAIN options. Have you seen this? > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016, at 18:07, Zoltan Forray wrote: > > Henrik, > > > > If you check recent posts here, you will see there is a major issue with > > 6.3.6.000 server and expirations. I have been fighting it since I > > upgrade > > one server. IBM has a hotfix to address it or you can simply upgrade to > > 7.1.6, which is what I did. You must contact IBM support for it. They > > say > > the impact has been minimal and hit-or-miss (not everyone who upgrades to > > 6.3.6.000 has the problem) so an official patch has not been released so > > far. > > > > Search Google for IT17642. > > > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Henrik Ahlgren <pa...@seestieto.com> > > wrote: > > > > > The documentation for EXPIRE INVENTORY command says "If you do not > > > specify either NODE or DOMAIN with value, data for all nodes is > > > processes". That is in fact how it works up to 6.3.6.100, but it seems > > > that there is a bug in 6.3.6 that causes it to only expire a handful of > > > randomly selected nodes, unless you specify "NODE=*". > > > > > > Have any of you run into this? If you're using 6.3.6, I would urge you > > > to check the expire history, i.e. > > > > > > select date(start_time) as date,count(*) as nodes,sum(affected) as > > > expired > > > from summary > > > where activity='EXPIRED' > > > group by date(start_time) > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > *Zoltan Forray* > > Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator > > Xymon Monitor Administrator > > VMware Administrator (in training) > > Virginia Commonwealth University > > UCC/Office of Technology Services > > www.ucc.vcu.edu > > zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 > > Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will > > never use email to request that you reply with your password, social > > security number or confidential personal information. For more details > > visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html > -- *Zoltan Forray* Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator Xymon Monitor Administrator VMware Administrator (in training) Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services www.ucc.vcu.edu zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html