>I have to delete some volumes from a copy storage pool. I have attempted to >delete as many as four volumes at once (del vol xxxx discarddata=yes) and had >deadlock problems. How many volumes should I expect to be able to process at >once? TSM 5.1.5 on OS/390.
There is no numerical answer... It's a classical database adjacency problem. The more disparate the data, the less likely conflicts in updating database records. I would not do more than two at a time. Richard Sims, BU