Re: ITSM V5.1.6 for MVS/OS-390

t least things don't seem to be any *worse* than they were. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University 334-844-9917 > I have been watching the list closely for any MVS/OS-390 ITSM v5.1.6 server > upgrades that have been successful. I have not noti

Importing node w/o creating owning admin ID?

a node by using the 'import node' command. Am I missing something? Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University 334-844-9917

User access list information

kept? Couldn't find anything in the list archives, either... Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University 334-844-9917

Re: Performance

un within the first hour after startup). I never saw the problem again; Freeheld usually peaked out somewhere around 25 MB for me. Hope this helps, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT

LTO2 corrupted index question

I can't get a feel for how to explain what I'm seeing. I'm assuming that the firmware update *really* fixed the problem...it's been out for several months with no subsequent updates. Any insight would be appreciated! Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: LTO2 corrupted index question

urring 'bad' tape (AU0132), I think I'll work with it some more before deciding it really needs to be replaced. Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Jurjen Oskam wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:26:42PM -0600, Bill Kelly wrote: > &

Re: LTO2 corrupted index question

isk" by my backup system) I've forwarded that info to our IBM hardware representative. Thanks! Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: by-hand reclamation question...

udit knows *immediately* which other volume is needed. Fortunately for me at least, I no longer have a need to do this sort of thing. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University

Changing library manager servers

y been through this? Is there not an easier way? I'd love to have someone point out how dense I'm being about this and how I'm missing the obvious. Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: Changing library manager servers

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Paul Zarnowski wrote: > It is not necessary to run the Library Manager server on a separate > physical server. If you know how to setup multiple TSM servers on the same > AIX box, then you can just run an additional TSM server image to be the > shared library manager. We have

Re: Problems with TSM and tapes

es of problems discussed here a few weeks ago under the subject 'LTO2 corrupted index question'. Anyone else getting such grief from their 358x tape system?? Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, John E. Vincent wrote: > Recently we've started seeing

Re: 3583 Meltdown

ersonally, I suspect a firmware problem, but obviously that's just an uneducated guess). Maybe if everyone who's seeing these messages contacts IBM support, they'll have a better chance of figuring out what's going on. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: Threshold on Copypool relcamation

fo - versions data exists, versions data deleted, retain > extra versions, and retain only version are all set to 7. Wouldn't the > tape empty after 7 days? Only if all the data on the tape has gone inactive (files deleted from the client machine's disk, or newer versions of files backed up). Hope this helps, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

er this weekend to see if I can come up with a region and db bufpool combination that will get the 'Freeheld bytes' (and presumably the 'buffers free') numbers into a reasonable range. Perhaps if I can do that, I'll be able to stop this insane cycling of the server every 5

Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

oked 'bad', now looks 'good'. As has been pointed out to me off-list, unless you know how to interpret the numbers, they're just that - a bunch of numbers. I should've known better. :-) Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Multiple versions of TSM server on one AIX host

the following message: ANRW Failure opening message repository for locale en_US_tsm5230(-1). Using default message repository. Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? Am I even on the right track?? Or is there another/better way to accomplish my goal? Thanks in advance, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: Multiple versions of TSM server on one AIX host

ctory structure, and anything else that's required to accomplish this? Thanks very much, Bill -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:34:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Bill Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ADSM discussion list Subject: Multiple versions of TSM server on

Re: Multiple versions of TSM server on one AIX host

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Pugliese, Edward wrote: > Instead of multiple versions on the same server, could you run different > versions on separate LPARS in a library client/manager arrangement ? I > do run multiple servers on one AIX partition but they are on the same > level. Yeah, based on your a

Re: volumes being marked seen as write protected

I used to audit the tape (always came up clean), then mark it read/write again. Now I don't bother with that - just mark 'em read/write as soon as I see the ANR8463E messages. -Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 > > Hi All, > Wondering if anyone else has seen

Re: TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives

occurring. With only two drives, and depending on the mount retention period specified on the device class, I could believe that an awful lot of that 10.5 hours might've been spent fiddling around with tape mounts, idle drives, etc., and not actually writing data. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly A

Re: TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives

be a very large number of tape > >mounts occurring. With only two drives, and depending on the mount > >retention period specified on the device class, I could believe that an > >awful lot of that 10.5 hours might've been spent fiddling around with tape > >mounts, id

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server scripts

To be more specific, set up the schedule with something along the lines of this: def sched queryproc t=a desc="query processes" cmd="q proc" startt=13:59:00 dur=15 duru=m day=any per=1 peru=hours active=yes Which will run the script every hour at (roughly) xx:59:00 -Bil

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server scripts

Sorry...obviously, one should substitute cmd="run script-name" for cmd="q proc" but you all knew what I meant. :-) > To be more specific, set up the schedule with something a>long the lines of > this: > def sched queryproc t=a desc="query processes" cmd="q proc" startt=13:59:00 > dur=15 du

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server scripts

I think that's correct; if you want the scripts to run in parallel, you'll need multiple admin schedules. If you want the scripts to run serially, you could kick off the first script via an admin schedule, then have that script run the second script, and so on... -Bill Bill Ke

Re: move data script

'move data' is not what you want to do in order to reclaim tapes; using reclamation thresholds and/or the new (5.3) 'reclaim stg' command will do just fine. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/08/06 11:49 AM >>>

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server scripts

certain delay. That 'another_script' could in fact do some things and then schedule itself to run again in the future. (BTW, the PARALLEL and SERIAL commands you mentioned are only valid *within* a script, not on the command line that runs a script.) -Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server scripts

cript processing and the start of script processing, then at the end of script , put: del sch run_ type=a def sch run_ t=a cmd="run " active=yes startt=NOW+0:05 peru=o Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/14/0

Re: 5.3.2.2 volume question

This sounds like APAR IC47950. If so, then until a fix is available, you can just update the volumes in question to scratch status via 'upd libv'. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/16/06 7:52 AM >>> I recently upgr

Re: Fiber attached tape drives

fault rmt0 thru rmt7, and to make the drive names match the physical order of drives in our 3584. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/01/06 2:11 PM >>> I have fiber attached 3590 tape drives in a 3494 library. I am running TSM

Re: Migrating to a Library Manager

x27;TSM2T' The totals from these two should equal the number of tapes physically present in the library. The two lists can be edited to turn them into 'checkout libv' and 'checkin libv' commands for use in steps 1 and 4 above. Of course, there are a lot of details I'm

Re: rebinding file backups

the backup, then delete the empty files you just created. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 >>> Ben Bullock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/07/06 11:45 AM >>> If the files still exist on the client, then they will be rebound to the new managem

Re: Some strange tape related issues?

DB backup was made will be lost when that backup is restored. So I would expect the "new" server to think that whatever tapes were involved in the drm move offsite were still in the library...that's what its database says. Or do I misunderstand what's wrong in question 4? Re

Re: 3584 checkin/checkout

cked in, issuing a 'checkin libv' command and monitoring the server log for success/failure messages. With SCSI-type tape libraries, there's a lot more work to be done by people and/or scripts than there is with a 3494. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 &

SQL to determine what offsite volumes are needed for move data

that could be used to tell me, given a copy pool volume, are there files on that volume that span to other copy pool volumes, and, if so, what are those other copy pool volumes? Or does anyone have a better approach to solving this problem? Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University 334-844-9917

Re: SQL to determine what offsite volumes are needed for move data

f of it)? Our daily process to backup the primary tape pools usually has little to do, and few input volumes to mount, since we back up the disk pools just before migrating. My goal here is to minimize the number of tape mounts and the time that the tape drives are tied up, whether it's in &#

Re: Number of Sessions?

M settings in general. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University

Re: Number of Sessions?

or the mis-reporting of our problem. -Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University

Re: Backup of all-local -systemonject

lutely prevent a client from backing up the System Object if the user really wants to. No 'exclude.systemobject', no nothing. I hope I'm wrong on this, and if so, I'd love for someone to correct me! Thanks, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: Backup of all-local -systemonject

backups fail altogether when I impose an 'include.systemobject ALL blackhole' on them. So, I went with the 'let them back it up, then throw it away' approach, which has its obvious drawbacks in terms of wasted resources. *sigh* Regards, Bill > -Original Message- &g

Re: Files bound to wrong mgtclass

during 'full' incremental backups (which is the only time a domain statement has an effect). A scheduled 'dsmc backup systemobject' will result in the system object being backed up regardless of what domain statement is in effect, and it will go to the mgt class specified on the 'include.systemobject' statement. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: Client/Server Expiration Problem

nd will go away during the next expiration process. As I said, I may well not understand what the problem for you is, so this posting may be a waste of people's time. If so, sorry! I'll go back to lurking. :-) Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 On Thu, 12 Feb

Re: Problems with binding mgt class to file

me as the inactive version(s), run the incremental backup, then get rid of the dummy version. The 'q b -ina' command can be useful for building a list of the files you need to fiddle with in this manner. Hope this helps, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917

Re: migration question

migration threshold yet. So if that node has enough data on disk, it could easily account for this behavior. -Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Levi, Ralph wrote: > I am running TSM 5.1.9 on AIX 4.3.3 . My primary disk pool is 490GB > with the him

Re: SET DRMRPFEXPIREDAYS Question

I think the behavior you're expecting only happens when the recovery plans are being stored at another TSM server. We use a shell script to clean up old recovery plan files. Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Sung Y Lee wrote: > Currentl

Re: Error writing volume history file

f the available space in /var? Dumps? Logs? Something else? -Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 >>> Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3/20/2007 1:43 PM >>> -Mark Stapleton wrote: - >Does the directory exist? Yes. >Is there room in the /var fil

Re: Moving Library Owner/Manager

tory cleanup (of type=remote entries) that'll need to be done in them. I don't have in my notes that an audit lib was necessary in the lib mgr client TSMs after all this; I think that if you get the tape checkouts/checkins correct, then it's not needed (and if you don't

Re: Orphaned filespaces

y to determine whether such filespaces have been 'abandoned' (e.g., old PC goes away, new PC comes in and filespace name changes) or not. -Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 334-844-9917 >>> Richard Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4/4/2007 9:36 AM >>> I've come a

Re: Orphaned filespaces

Ahh...I hadn't thought of using the backup_date column from the backups table. I'll have to see if I can get away with running a query like this; if so, it'd make my 'cleanup old filespace' processing more thorough. Thanks! Bill Bill Kelly Auburn University OIT 33

Re: CDL: Cannot seem to checkin virtual tapes, please help!

You can also add 'waitt=0' to your label libvol command; this suppresses the prompt and the subsequent need for a reply. Here's the label command we use for our 3584: label libvolume lib-name search=bulk labelsource=barcode checkin=scratch waitt=0 Regards, Bill Bill Kelly Auburn