Re: TSM database randomly failing backup

2013-03-12 Thread Steven Harris
-Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 4:07 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM database randomly failing backup Been there - done that - read the book - saw the video. Just went

Re: TSM database randomly failing backup

2013-03-12 Thread Sims, Richard B
Having abundant physical memory in your system doesn't mean that your server process will get to use it. Operating systems can impose per-process limits, according to configuration values. See http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.srv.install.doc%2Ft_sr

Re: TSM database randomly failing backup

2013-03-12 Thread Skylar Thompson
07 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM database randomly failing backup Been there - done that - read the book - saw the video. Just went through this on my Linux servers so I am guessing the resolution is probably similar. There are specific memory tuning parameters for DB2 for y

Re: TSM database randomly failing backup

2013-03-12 Thread Stackwick, Stephen
9.1135 (o) > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf > Of Zoltan Forray > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 4:07 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM database randomly failing backup > > Been there -

Re: TSM database randomly failing backup

2013-03-12 Thread Skylar Thompson
We've been getting this off-and-on since v6.2 (we're on v6.3.3.100 now). I've even run a DB backup within seconds of getting that message, and it succeeds. Given that it eventually succeeds and doesn't happen very often, we've just lived with it, although if someone has a fix I'd be very intereste

Re: TSM database randomly failing backup

2013-03-12 Thread Zoltan Forray
Been there - done that - read the book - saw the video. Just went through this on my Linux servers so I am guessing the resolution is probably similar. There are specific memory tuning parameters for DB2 for your OS - things like memory heap sizes, etc, swap sizes, etc. In my case, it was Linux

TSM database randomly failing backup

2013-03-12 Thread Stackwick, Stephen
Windows 2003 6.2.5: "ANR4588E A database backup configuration might be incorrect." This is obviously a bogus message, since sometimes the database *does* back up. Nothing in the db2diag.log (itself suspicious) or the Windows event logs. The only thing I can think of is some sort of memory issue