Hi Henrrry, I had a similar type problem. It was traced back to a DB2 backup. It was a matter of the TSM server getting a bad size estimate and not properly saving enough disk space. It would then have to keep going though the internal space allocation process. It made TSM look very surgy in its response time and CPU utilization went way up. I am not sure why your MVS people see going to tape as the problem. But the FREEZING looks very similar. Matt
-----Original Message----- From: Henrry Aranda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 2:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM S/390 performance Hi list, environ is TSM server 4.1.2.12 on S/390 with 3494 library connected via FICON, 3590E tape drives, 60+ SQL Servers using TDP 2.2 and Oracle server on AIX 5.1 with 1,5TB of backup data (no Oracle TDP is being used), the 390 is connected via gigabit ethernet to the clients, the issue is when the backup sequence starts at night, the TSM server process "freezes" from time to time, that is, it doesn4t receives data nor responds to command line, it lasts for some seconds and then it comes to live again, have you seen this kind of behavior before? it doesn4t prevent the backups to complete but affects the total backup window and we are trying to isolate the error, 390 guys say that it seems that this "contention" occurs when TSM tries to access 3590 drives, is it normal? did I misconfigured something? Any comment will be helpful. Thanks Luis Tapia _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus