Rob to get further details obout your client performance please set the following parameters in the client option file: TRACEFILE "C:\TSM\BACLIENT\TRACE\TRACE.OUT" TRACEFLAGS INSTR_CLIENT_DETAIL
and don't forget to exclude the tracefile in your client option file with: EXCLUDE "C:\TSM\BACLIENT\TRACE\TRACE.OUT" If your are using the quiet option in your client option file, you will get a summary of information in the trace file like: Tivoli Storage Manager Version 4, Release 1, Level 3.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Final Detailed Instrumentation statistics Elapsed time: 1364.460 sec Section Total Time(sec) Average Time(msec) Frequency used ------------------------------------------------------------------ Client Setup 14.020 14020.0 1 Process Dirs 151.070 61.7 2449 Solve Tree 0.000 0.0 1 Compute 3.160 0.0 113703 Transaction 416.100 0.8 500831 BeginTxn Verb 0.110 0.0 5215 File I/O 355.380 2.4 149409 Compression 660.800 7.5 87855 Encryption 0.000 0.0 57348 Delta 0.000 0.0 0 Data Verb 177.790 2.2 79634 Confirm Verb 0.720 240.0 3 EndTxn Verb 457.050 87.6 5215 Client Cleanup 0.930 930.0 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Here you can see, where the time consuming processes are. Sincerly Juergen Heinrich