Re: FW: v7 upgrade woes

2016-06-21 Thread Robert J Molerio
When they first incorporated DB2 into TSM IBM used to have a dedicated DB2 support group to help with these issues. I'm wondering if they were let go during the last IBM purge? Thank you, Systems Administrator Systems & Network Services NYU IT/Technology Operations Services 212-998-1110 646-53

Re: Spectrum Protect support for I series

2016-07-29 Thread Robert J Molerio
Start using BRMS? On Jul 29, 2016 6:22 AM, "Chavdar Cholev" wrote: > Yeap, > very strange strategy I have customers that need this > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Saravanan Palanisamy < > evergreen.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Just noticed that TSM support has been withdrawn for IBM i

Re: AIX to Linux migration performance

2016-07-29 Thread Robert J Molerio
I thought that functionality was long gone in 5.x? Thank you, Systems Administrator Systems & Network Services NYU IT/Technology Operations Services 212-998-1110 646-539-8239 On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Bill Mansfield < bill.mansfi...@us.logicalis.com> wrote: > Has anyone migrated a

Re: IBM reneges on Enhanced support policy for TSM 6.4?

2016-09-17 Thread Robert J Molerio
No wonder TSM customers have been migrating to other solutions. On Sep 17, 2016 15:09, "Schofield, Neil (Storage & Middleware, Backup & Restore)" wrote: > Classification: Public > > I always thought IBM's 'Enhanced' support policy was supposed to guarantee > customers a *minimum* of 5 years supp

Re: ANR8420E messages

2011-05-26 Thread Robert J Molerio
Ditto. TSm development isn't what it used to be. On 5/26/11, Thomas Denier wrote: > -David E Ehresman wrote: - > >>My guess is there is a problem talking to the library controller. I >>would try setting the library path offline and then online. > > Setting the library path offline and on

Re: linux client and TSM gui

2011-06-02 Thread Robert J Molerio
If that dosent work try dsmj after exporting your display variable. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Tim Brown wrote: > Is there a way to run a TSM GUI session on Linux, I am able to run the > command line interface. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tim Brown > Systems Specialist - Project Leader > Centra

Re: TSM 6 for z/OS

2011-06-11 Thread Robert J Molerio
I checked about a year ago and the answer was NO. On 6/11/11, Mehdi Salehi wrote: > Hi, > Has IBM any plan to release TSM 6 for MVS? > > Thank you. > -- Sent from my mobile device Thank you, Bob Molerio Systems Administrator New York University ITS Computer Facilities Services/Infrastructure L

Re: TSM 6 for z/OS

2011-06-11 Thread Robert J Molerio
now at least read (and > maybe write?) tapes written by TSM 5 on zOS, so you have a migration path. > > On 11 jun 2011, at 16:19, Robert J Molerio wrote: > >> I checked about a year ago and the answer was NO. >> >> On 6/11/11, Mehdi Salehi wrote: >>> Hi, >

Re: TSM 6 for z/OS

2011-06-11 Thread Robert J Molerio
It means if you want to utilize the robust features of system z tape management system (DFSMS) you probably would need to replace TSM on zOS with a backup sution that uses FICON. FDR/UPSTREAM or something like that. On 6/11/11, Mehdi Salehi wrote: > This implicitly means that we should use TSM 6.

Re: TSM 6 for z/OS

2011-06-11 Thread Robert J Molerio
So can you publish the presentation url? On 6/11/11, Tomasz Hubicki wrote: > I saw an IBM presentation, which describes new TSM element to be released in > 2H 2011 - TSM for z/OS media: > - Receives/sends data from/to TSM v6 server > - Performs I/O to tape and/or sequential disk > - Supports same

Re: tape encryption in TSM environment

2011-06-12 Thread Robert J Molerio
Yes but you need to use TKLM or its MF equiv to be of value unless you use an appliiance. On 6/11/11, Mehdi Salehi wrote: > Hi, > Tape volumes canned be accessed if there is no TSM database. If happens, > restoring the database and gaining access to data seem to be very difficult > (at least for

Re: TSM 6 for z/OS

2011-06-12 Thread Robert J Molerio
I would consider migrating to FDR/UPSTREAM in that regard. On 6/11/11, Mehdi Salehi wrote: >> An open TSM server can very happily work with a z/OS TSM client. >> There are TSM version 6 clients for z/OS, just not the server. > Maybe that client is just for Unix System Services. What I mean is a f

Re: tape encryption in TSM environment

2011-06-13 Thread Robert J Molerio
ekm encryption is negligible. not sure about tklm. any takers on that? On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote: > How much performance degradation would there if encryption is on? Although > it is the duty of drive itself (I suppose), it might have negative > influence > on backup a

Re: Increase speed of TDP Exchange Backups

2011-06-13 Thread Robert J Molerio
are you using any deduplication feature on your vtl? On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Leonard, Matthew < matthew.leon...@atlasair.com> wrote: > Our exchange backups (Doing Full) are a little under 4.0 TB and they are > taking 14 hours. We are using a Virtual Tape library and the bandwidth is > g

Re: [adsm] Re: TSM 6.x and HADR

2011-06-16 Thread Robert J Molerio
Are there any tested proceedural steps to using this feature? There doesn't seem to anything in the IBM Technical Library. On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Lloyd Dieter wrote: > I've been playing with this recently...as Daniel indicated, it's pretty > easy to set up. > > db2pd -hadr -db tsmdb1 >

Re: paths going offline from library manager (in this 3 library clients paths are going offline)

2011-07-20 Thread Robert J Molerio
Check if your drives are zoned properly ( I assume) you are using a SAN to connect your TSM server to your library. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Yuvaraja Shivarama < yuvaraja.dee...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Any body know what could be the problem if the paths are going offline > ve

Re: Technical Exchange Series Webinars

2011-07-25 Thread Robert J Molerio
I experienced that same issue. On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Dave Canan wrote: > Let me pose this to the listserv here. Are others also having this problem > when listening the to Technical Exchange sessions? If this is isolated to > just Thomas then it might be an issue on his side. If there

Re: New 6.2 servers

2011-07-28 Thread Robert J Molerio
Are these single or multi-instance TSM server builds? On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT < andy.hueb...@alconlabs.com> wrote: > Does anyone have any "under documented" tuning tips for TSM 6.2 on AIX? We > are going to build new systems next week. > > AIX 6.1 > P6 - 2 CP

Re: Anyone using Power Mobility for TSM environment?

2011-08-17 Thread Robert J Molerio
I think you may be the first shop to attempt this. Good luck! On 8/17/11, Nancy L Leugemors wrote: > Hello TSMers, > > Is anyone using AIX power mobility for their TSM environment with hba's > for disk and all tsm traffic using the network to a NFS(Dat Domain > appliance)? > > We currently have

Re: TSM V5 TDP installed with TSM V6 backup client

2011-10-03 Thread Robert J Molerio
Just follow the tdp 5.5 install steps in the TDP redbook. On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Bob Booth wrote: > We are attempting to install TSM TDP V5 for Oracle on a Linux system that > has > the V6 BA client on it. Is this combination even possible, as it seems > there > is a conflict in the V6

Re: How to migrate 3592-E05 formatted tapes to 3592-E06 format

2011-10-04 Thread Robert J Molerio
update the device class . see help update devclass On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Keith Arbogast wrote: > We are buying some 3592-E06 drives to replace the 3592-E05 drives in our > 3584 tape libraries. The goal is to store more TB on the cartridges we > already have. The 3592-E06 drives can rea

Re: How to migrate 3592-E05 formatted tapes to 3592-E06 format

2011-10-04 Thread Robert J Molerio
Yes. But to be sure open up a ticket with TSM support to verify this. We did this using TSM v 6.2.x and it worked fine. On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Keith Arbogast wrote: > Robert et al; > Will updating the device class make the new drives write files to tapes in > E06 format which have prev

Re: lanfree 6.3 using proxy option

2011-11-30 Thread Robert J Molerio
Carlo, Since you used lanfreecommmethod tcpip, I assume the datya flows from the tsm client to the storage agent proxy via he network correct? On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Carlo Zanelli < carlo.zane...@regione.veneto.it> wrote: > Hmmm... > Ok, well.. > > Step 1: Set up a server with Storage

Re: TS3500 ALMS question..

2012-02-09 Thread Robert J Molerio
Well, I have 5 TSM instances living in the same LPAR and all the drives are defined to all TSM instances. Library sharing is turned on. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Jorge Amil wrote: > Hello, > I´m not sure about it. > Meaby,in the same logical partition, you must define X drives for TSM1 an

Re: AIX vs Linux 2012

2012-04-20 Thread Robert J Molerio
I have to agree with Paul. If you don't mind supporting TSM on Linux then try it. I can tell you this, alot will depend on how well IBM will support TSM on Linux. You didn't mention how many TSM instances you are supporting on AIX. If you want to compare notes send me a note offline. On Fri, Apr

Re: Admin Center Issues

2012-06-22 Thread Robert J Molerio
Do yourself a favor and don't use the admin center. Try a third party tool like StorServer Console, TSM Manager or just use the command line. Just came back from a TSM user group and saw ServerGraph which looks promising. On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Jim Neal wrote: > Hi All, > > > >