Re: ADSM and MS Cluster

2000-10-24 Thread Anton Herrero, Angel
Hello, thanks a lot for the information, and if you don´t mind i will borrow a piece more of information from you. Could you tell me witch is teh redbook you mention? >From witch disk and directory you run your batch command: from c:\adsm\baclient or >from f:\adsm\baclient Could you send me the

Re: support for SAL2K

2000-10-24 Thread Del Hoobler
Dean, We are targeting Q1 2001. As usual...no promises. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Amini, Mehdi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 09/22/2000 11:44:42 AM Dean Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.ED

Re: Copypool Reclamation

2000-10-24 Thread Steve Harris
Copypool reclamation is performed by copying data that is still valid on the tape that is being reclaimed from the *source* primary stgpool again to a new copypool tape. e.g. if files a,b,c are all still unexpired on copypool tape c1 and d is unexpired on c2, they also still exist in the primary

Memory consumption by SMDR.NLM backing up NDS

2000-10-24 Thread Peter Hadikin
Hello group, I hope somebody can help me. We are trying to backup our NDS and are running into a problem. As the NDS backs up, the amount of memory 'consumed' by SMDR.NLM grows and grows until no more short term memory can be allocated on the server. Our NDS is relatively large but for the lif

Re: Tape drive shortage

2000-10-24 Thread James W. Doll
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Tape drive shortage

2000-10-24 Thread David Browne.
I am running TSM 3.7.20.0 on MVS OS390 2.8 mainframe. We are short on tape drives and we are receiving the following message: ANR5373I Unable to allocate tape drive with device type TAPE36 for tape 276414. Reply C (cancel), R (retry), or W (wait). My question is; should I reply W to wait and the

Copypool Reclamation

2000-10-24 Thread rh
Sorry if this has been asked before. Is it possible to do tape copypool reclamation with a single tape drive ? The reclaimpool option isn't allowed for a copypool, so I can't see how to define file (disk) space to do it. Since I can do reclaim of primary tape pools using a reclaimpool on disk, I d

Re: Optimum diskpool size

2000-10-24 Thread Talafous, John G.
What I have gleaned from *SM studies is that you should have enough disk cache to hold one day's worth of backups. Most installations will backup AND migrate important data. But this is an installation's decision. In doing so, it may be beneficial to backup the disk storage pool before migrating i

Re: Optimum diskpool size

2000-10-24 Thread Cook, Dwight E
OK, I basically keep a diskpool big enough to contain an entire night's backups. Now this is compressed... Things to remember: Clients, even though using compression, allocate enough disk space in the diskpool to hold the file uncompressed, once the transfer is completed, unused space is f

TDP for Oracle NT

2000-10-24 Thread Nelson Rios
To all: Environment:NT Server 4.0 TSM server 3.7.3.8 Oracle TDP 3.7.2 (NT) Oracle 8.1.5 (NT) TSM client V3.7.2 In the process of Setting up TDP for Oracle Client, can anyone share with me the Daily backup schedule RMAN scripts y

Re: ADSM and MS Cluster

2000-10-24 Thread Burkhart, Damon
Interestingly enough, I just completed my first config of ADSM for a cluster. Although the installation is not clearly documented, I found the Redbook fairly useful. One warning however: the notes for the options required for the service install aren't as good in the Redbook. I ended up using t

Re: license not valid yet nothing "not valid"

2000-10-24 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi: This showed up on our server after migrateing to TSM 3.7. Looking thru the activity log it appears to be because of our use of the MS-SQL agent, which I believe previously did not require a license file on the server. Larry Clark NYS Thruway Authority >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/20/00 10:07AM

Re: How much data is being backe up?

2000-10-24 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi: -look at your activity log for stats -you would normally not do a selective. -your 1st incremental will back up everything. After that changed files. Doing a selective would be a lot of overhead to back up ( again) files that haven't changed. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/20/00 04:27PM >>> Hi ,

Re: session rejected

2000-10-24 Thread Lawrence Clark
I finally traced the dragging performance to a NIC card that had been reconfigured to half-duplex. It should have been full-duplex 100mb. Thanks, Larry Clark NYS Thruway Authority >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/24/00 08:02AM >>> Larry, Query Status and look at the "Maximum Sessions" and Maximum Schedu

Re: DB2 Error - Return code 41

2000-10-24 Thread Collins, Brenda
Hi Andy, Thank you! I did go back and look at my API manual and I was looking at the 3.7 version. I will download the newer version so I am up to date. Is there any easy way to determine how often I am using all the drives? I started running a 'q mount' command every 30 minutes today so I cou

Re: session rejected

2000-10-24 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi: Yes the maxsessions was the cause of the message. However, we have suddenly had the situation where a number of clients begin to transfer data then abruptly appear to 'stop'. They are qued up and transfer small amounts of data with long periods of inactivities. When this occurs the restores

Re: Optimum diskpool size

2000-10-24 Thread Warren, Matthew James
Hello, I would do some tests to see how quickly you are able to migrate from the diskpool with single or multiple migration processes, and also to see how quickly your diskpools fill up, and take it from there. The only other thing I would be aware of is the size of the files being backed up - TS

Re: TSM Client Performance / dsmcperf.dll

2000-10-24 Thread James Thompson
I had a similar situation and support gave me the following work around. This was for a 3.1.0.7 client so you may need to adjust it for the Tivoli version. Since it involves 'hacking' the registry, do this at your own risk. I believe there is an apar open for this problem as well. James Thompso

Optimum diskpool size

2000-10-24 Thread Gerard M Hanway
I look after the companies TSM environment. Approx 700 servers back up an average of 60-70gb per night. The ADSM server runs on OS/390 with 500 OS/2 and 200 NT clients. I have 2 primary disk pools, one of 45GB for the NT servers(colocated) and one of 4GB for the OS/2 servers(non colocated). HIMIG

support for SAL2K

2000-10-24 Thread Dean Winger
Does anyone have any info. regarding a timeline for when TSM SQL data protection Agent will support SQL2K? Thanks Dean Winger Director of Computer Services 1025 W. Johnson St Madison, WI 53706 Phone (608)265-3202 Fax (608)263-6448 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Move client data to another stgpool

2000-10-24 Thread Allen Barth
Well, yes and no, depending on how much pain you are willing to put up with. If you are looking to be able to directly MOVE the data for these filesystems, the answer is NO! That funtionality doesn't exist in TSM, but has been requested several times. The only way I got done what you're looking

Re: 3590 tape compress question

2000-10-24 Thread Andy Raibeck
When client compression is turned on, the data is already arriving to the TSM server in a compressed state. The 3590 may indeed be trying to compress this data again, but compressed data does not compress very well, so this is why you see the misleading utilization. Keep in mind though, that the

Re: DB2 Error - Return code 41

2000-10-24 Thread Richard Sims
>Does anyone know what the following means? This return code is not listed >in the API book. > >SQL2025N An I/O error "41" occurred on media "ADSM". Brenda - SQL messages are from DB2 itself. See IBM message references like http://magna.cs.ucla.edu/db2doc/db2m0/sql2000.htm But th

Re: 3590 tape compress question

2000-10-24 Thread Talafous, John G.
This is an update to a post I made some 10 days ago. I was looking for 3590 extended length cartridges to show capacity numbers indicating decent compression was going on. ... What I found was a ClientOptionSet that indicated Compression=Yes. Therefore, the data I was receiving was already compre

Re: DB2 Error - Return code 41

2000-10-24 Thread Andy Raibeck
Hi Brenda, The latest doc for 4.1 does include the infor for RC 41. Also, you can find the brief description in dsmrc.h, located in directory ..\TSM\api\include. RC 41 means DSM_RS_ABORT_EXCEED_MAX_MP, which means that the client was attempting to use more mountpoints for a backup or archive ope

TSM Client Performance / dsmcperf.dll

2000-10-24 Thread Michael Hack
We have TSM 3.7.3.0 for NT on an Compaq server with a Overland AIT library. The backups and the administrative schedule work fine. But following appear in the NT event viewer every 30 sec.: Event ID: 3009 Type: Error Source: ADSM Client Description: Open failed for the ADSM client "Per

DB2 transaction log backup

2000-10-24 Thread Eric Tang
Hi All, DB2 v5.2 on AIX. Instead of using db2 exit, I am setting up DB2 online backup by db2 backup database online use adsm dsmc archive the transaction log (with serialization = share dynamic in copygroup) In order to test the serialization=sharedynamic, during online backup I run a scr

DB2 Error - Return code 41

2000-10-24 Thread Collins, Brenda
Hi! Does anyone know what the following means? This return code is not listed in the API book. SQL2025N An I/O error "41" occurred on media "ADSM". Thanks, Brenda Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with Barcode Reader.

2000-10-24 Thread Mark A. Adams
I seem to remember this coming up before. Check previous items on this list. If my memory serves me correctly, someone else had a problem related to this and it turned out that there was too much external lighting on the library, causing it to interfere with the barcode reader. Mark Adams -O

Re: Tapes needed for a restore

2000-10-24 Thread Mark A. Adams
Select from the contents table. It may take some time but it will give you what you want. I just did this for about 500 files. Mark Adams -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nancy Reeves Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 2:11 PM To: [EMAIL

session rejected

2000-10-24 Thread Lawrence Clark
Hi: We are experiencing a number of sessions that seen to sit idle and not complete. This message, not in the message manual, appears: ANS1351E Session rejected. All server sessions are currently in use. Has anyone seen this one before? Larry Clark NYS Thruway Authority

Re: session rejected

2000-10-24 Thread Richard Sims
>We are experiencing a number of sessions that seen to sit idle and not >complete. This message, not in the message manual, appears: > >ANS1351E Session rejected. All server sessions are currently in use. Larry - The message is in the messages manual, in chapter: Chapter 7. Client Common

Re: Problems with Barcode Reader.

2000-10-24 Thread Gwen Garcia
Richard, We checked the labels on smudges etc., but they all seem to be o.k. A service technician is having a look at the barcode reader, but is taking his time. Gwen Richard Sims wrote: > >We have a problem with a Magstar 3575 Tape library. > >When auditing the library, with parameter "checkl

Re: session rejected

2000-10-24 Thread Churchfield Glen
Larry, Query Status and look at the "Maximum Sessions" and Maximum Scheduled Sessions. The maxsessions is the total sessions that can go on at once and the maxschedsessions is the percent of those that can be initiated by a schedule. Reset these by "SET MAXSCHEDSESSIONS #" and "SETOPT MAXSESSIONS

Full backup at end of BST?

2000-10-24 Thread Neil Schofield
British Summer Time (daylight saving time in UK) ends this weekend. I have just done a test by rolling the time forward on a test NT client and it appears that I should expect the first backup after the end of BST will be a full backup! I've tried this with 3.7 and 4.1 TSM clients for Windows and

Re: session rejected

2000-10-24 Thread Brian Nick
Larry, You may need to increase your maxsessions option in the server options file. Brian Lawrence Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ATE.NY.US> cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Di

Re: Problems with Barcode Reader.

2000-10-24 Thread Richard Sims
>We have a problem with a Magstar 3575 Tape library. >When auditing the library, with parameter "checkl=BArcode" the barcode is >not recognized. >The robot must put the tape in the drive in order to recognize the tape >label. > >All the microcodes and the Atape drivers have been upgraded to the >l

Problems with Barcode Reader.

2000-10-24 Thread Gwen Garcia
L.S. We have a problem with a Magstar 3575 Tape library. When auditing the library, with parameter "checklºrcode" the barcode is not recognized. The robot must put the tape in the drive in order to recognize the tape label. All the microcodes and the Atape drivers have been upgraded to the latest

scheduled restore->rename of files

2000-10-24 Thread Warren, Matthew James
Hello *SMers, I am in a situation where I cannot use trial and error, so... Does anybody know how to define a restore schedule for a single file such that it is renamed on the target node? What does the OBJ string need to be? - I dont want to get this wrong and overwrite the file that is alrea

Re: ANR9999D asutil.c(218): Pool id 0 not found.

2000-10-24 Thread Reinhard Mersch
Strange, I am seeing a similar message during start of the server (3.1.2.57), but never saw it during a restore. I always contributed it to a problem we are known to have in our DB. (I could not afford to run the suggested DUMP/LOAD/AUDIT DB so far.) And, what a coincidence, we are also using ADS