Re: Moving the TSM DB2 database (AIX)

2014-03-27 Thread Colwell, William F.
Hi Kevin, glad to be of help. If you haven't seen it yet, you can setup schedules in the netapp cmd line admin windows (maybe in a gui too, but I wouldn't know about that) for doing reallocates. I looked for a script I made to do this, but I guess I deleted it when I got off the netapp. For co

Re: Moving the TSM DB2 database (AIX)

2014-03-27 Thread Kevin Kettner
Thanks a ton for that info! This is hugely promising. My volumes are definitely fragmented. I have 5 200 GB vols that make up my DB volumes on my worst server. Four of them were recommended for reallocation. I started a reallocate on one last night and it's 80% done. I can already see a huge impr

Re: Moving the TSM DB2 database (AIX)

2014-03-27 Thread Steven Harris
There is an AIX tuning hint for increasing tape throughput on modern drives. The default AIX page size causes multiple spin locks to be obtained and released for each tape io. The way around this is to configure 64KB pages on AIX and force dsmserv to run with that page size. I'm building some n