David - I am running exactly the same tsm and OS/390, but with mpthreading on.
I haven't seen any problems caused by it. I turned it on at the suggestion of
tsm level 2 support to fix a pmr, I don't remember what the problem was.
I have just one processor, but level 2 assured me it would help any
I had this type of thing happen to a Mac client. A win* 4.2.1.26 client
touched a mac node, it didn't even back anything up, just connected, but
it caused the mac client to say it was downlevel. So I got the 5.1 mac client
and installed it and it still said it was downlevel!
At this point I cal
Gerald,
The return codes for tsm products that use the api are in the
api folder, include folder, dsmrc.h file. TDPO and db2/udp use the
api. In this case rc=2032 means --
#define DSM_RC_NO_OWNER_REQD 2032 /* owner not allowed. Allow default */
Exactly what to change to fix this? I hav
Luke, it can be done but it is a multi step process involving both
the server and the client. Do this before the data is deleted from the client.
1. In the server make a new mgmtclass called DELETE_NOW.
Set the backup copygroup numbers to their lowest allowed values -
1,0,0,0 (vere, rete, verd,
Bob, the latest ptfs are UQ65584 - 87. This is level 4.2.2.0.
You should be able to get these from IBMLink, SUF, or the tsm FTP site.
You should also get the 4.2.2.1 patch from the FTP site.
At 08:37 AM 6/6/2002, you wrote:
>We are planning to upgrade from the ADSM 3.1 server to TSM 4.2 this
Wolf-C,
Here is a part of the dsmrc.h file that documents the tsm api return codes.
/*---*/
/* 400-430 for options */
/*--
Hi Chet,
I don't have drm either; here is what I do.
Run an update volume command; it lists every volume it updates.
Capture the output to create eject commands. You can add 'preview=yes'
to the command to test it.
The update volume command is --
upd v * acc=offsite wherestg= whereacc=readw w
Geoff,
Inactive version will be expired from the server according to the
RETEXTRA and RETONLY parameters. Eventually, only the
active set will remain.
If you want to keep all the inactive versions, you can copy the domain
to a new domain, update the copygroups to have all 9's, activate
the poli
To trim out the extra versions, I would copy the domain the
node is now in to a new domain. Update the copygroups to these values -
verexists 1
verdeleted 1
retextra 0
retonly
Activate the poilcyset and then update the node to be in the new domain.
The next expiration will trim all the ina
Matt, I had a similar problem and called support; level 2 explained
why region=0M is bad. TSM takes the JCL region size and getmains
a small fraction of that to use for a cellpool. The object of the cellpool
is to avoid doing getmains and freemains. When it sees 0M a
too small default cellpool
Scott, I haven't done this but I have thought about it before.
I suggest some additional steps for safety.
1. empty out the diskpool and delete the volumes. Make sure
the copypool is a complete image. Than take the dbbackup and restore
to server b. Add 1/2 of the disk volumes to the diskpool
Paul,
here is SQL I run frequently as a macro from the command line.
It makes a reasonable size list of some or all
the backups for a node that can be viewed with notepad .
The parameters are -
%1 - the nodename quoted in caps.
%2 - either = or like, unquoted not caps
%3 - if %2 is =, then one fi
Guillaume,
Set the serialization in the copypool to dynamic and changingretries to
0. Your txnbytelimit allows transaction as large as 250 meg; you don't
want to let anything cause a termination and rollback of such a large transaction
which is why, I assume, you have compressalways = yes.
On
Roger, when I had to untangle the unicode cooties, I contacted
level 1 & then 2 and got the unsupported commands to do it.
But they also told me that an export, delete node, import process
would do the trick to because the one nasty bit wasn't exported
or wasn't imported or something to that effec
John, if you set the "Query Schedule Period" to a low number,
say 4 hours, you will be able to change the domain and schedule
and avoid having the client schedule obtain a schedule
which you then delete. In the admin ref, see the set command for
query schedule period and try to find some guidance
Joe - if the 2 compresion processes are both software, the yes, the output of the 2nd
compression
will be large than its input. But if the 2nd compression is being done by a tape
drive, the drive will be
smart enough to stop the compression if the file grows. It least that is the case for
359
Joe - the number of volumes isn't the problem. You need to increase the bufpoolsize
in the server
dsm.opt file. Here is a 'q db f=d' from my system. The bufpoolsize parameter becomes
the
'buffer pool pages' value in the q db.
Bill Colwell
- - -
tsm: NEW_ADSM_SERVER_ON_PORT_1600>q db f=d
Try Wanda's method first. If it doesn't work try marking the volume 'destroyed'
and the restore the volume from the copypool (assuming you have one).
--
Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge Ma.
At 04:24 PM 1/28/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>This is a common problem on TSM 3.7 and 4.1.
>
>R
Mobeen,
I suggest this query, but it will be very long running.
First in dsmadmc do 'q co * active * t=b'. Record the names of the management
classes that have the retextra or retonly values you are interested in.
Then submit this query -
select * from backups where class_name in ('mg1', 'mg2
t Development
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>The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
>The command line is your friend.
>"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
>
>
>
>
>"Wi
oes unasked.
>The command line is your friend.
>"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
>
>
>
>
>"William F. Colwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>01/29/2002 09:01
>Please respon
Andy, no my dsm.opt does not have INCRTHRESHOLD specified, so I assume it defaults to
0.
Here is my dsm.opt --
LANG AMENG
* AdStaR Distributed Storagre Manager
*
* Sample client options file for MS Windows-NT/95 common client
Hi,
I am just starting to roll out 4.2.1.20 win clients. I will use both journalling
and subfile backups. Every client gets a special schedule that will run once
every 4 weeks to force a non journaled backup and non subfile backup. Here
is one of the schedules -
def schedule standard late_eve
Gary -
you can get the volume names for the volumeusage table.
Here is a macro to do the select; cut and paste the macro to a file,
then in dsmadmc enter
macro file_name 'NODE_NAME' = 'filespace_name'. The output
will be in the file c:\tsmvolumes.txt.
Hope this helps.
/*
Oliver - the message means that the node has the compression option set to
no. Update the node and set compression to client, which lets the dsm.opt on the
client
choose, or you clientoptionset, or set compression to yes which forces compression on.
Hope this helps,
--
Bill Colwell
C.
Joe, you can define a deviceclass with type=file, maxcap=512m.
Then you can generate the backupsets to the new deviceclass.
The backupset will be written to a one or more dynamically allocated
files on your sms managed disks. When the backup set is done you can
either FTP the files to the seconda
Tom, you should think seriously about upgrading to 4.2.19.
I have experienced problems like you describe, but not since I went to 4.2.1.6;
since then I have gone up to .9 without problems.
Also, I used to run with region=0m in the JCL for tsm. While working with level
2 on a problem like what yo
Holly,
If your users leave outlook running very little space is consumed in tsm because
the client can't access the .pst file. I have been searching for a way to get outlook
stopped by the scheduler preschedcommand. Has anyone figured out how to
do this yet?
We don't use outlook for mail and m
Hi Joe,
At 03:39 PM 2/28/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Environment:
>Server: 4.1.3.0
>Platform: S390
>
>1. Logmode: We're going to change the Logmode from Normal to Roll Forward. What
>determines the amount of disk I'll require?
You need enough log space to hold all the db changes between scheduled
Arthur,
I run on os/390 without ca1 or any product like it. We have an stk library too.
To find what volumes to send offsite from the copypool I made a
batch job that runs the update volume command -
upd vol * access=offsite wherestg=9840copy whereacc=readw
wherest=full,filling
This changes th
Dale, yes, I have seen this. The problem is with unicode support. Do
'help q fi' and 'help del fi' to see the new parameters that may be required.
For instance, here is a 'q fi' of my own machine (winxp, client 4.2.1.26, server at
4.2.1.9).
Note the namet parameter and see what happens without
Christo,
I have had hi CPU problems in the past. I took svc dumps and reported
it to tsm. Level 2 confirmed that the dump showed lots of activity in
getmain & freemain. They said tsm should not be doing any getmains or
freemains unless it runs out of it preformatted cellpools. The size of
the
Scott, you can get the names of deleted files from SQL queries on the
backups table, but with difficulty. I don't have any SQL to post here, but
here is what you need to do.
Select from the backups table where the deactivate date is the current date,
assuming the backup happened between 00:00 an
Ian, with todays tsm each tape would be mounted sequentially. With
tomorrows tsm each tape could be mounted in parallel if you have enough
drives. This is a feature in tsm 5.1, due out very soon, on 4/9/02 is what I have
heard.
At 04:33 PM 3/20/2002 +, you wrote:
>hi
>
>Does anybody know th
Jim,
I have seen this also. I suspect that the tape starts with part2 of a file that
has part 1 on a tape still offsite, or ends with part 1 of a file that has part 2
on an offsite tape. The server can't switch between onsite and offsite mode
for copypool moves and reclaims to it has to use off
Jack - I think you should just remove the whole 'group by' clause.
You are not selecting a column function such has count(*) or avg(column).
Unless you have a very small database or a very fast machine,
this query will run a long time.
Hope this helps,
Bill
At 12:10 PM 3/20/2002 -0600, you wro
Zoltan, The patches are at
service2.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/server/MVS-OS390
Hope this helps,
Bill
At 11:57 AM 4/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Anyone got a clue where the OS390 TSM server patches have gone ?
>
>The link from Tivoli goes to:
>ftp://service.boulder.
uch Directory !
>
>
>Zoltan Forray
>Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center
>e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807
>
>
>
>
>"William F. Colwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent by: "ADSM:
Joe - my db is pretty big on s/390 --
tsm: NEW_ADSM_SERVER_ON_PORT_1600>q db f=d
Available Space (MB): 185,400
Assigned Capacity (MB): 185,400
Maximum Extension (MB): 0
Maximum Reduction (MB): 28,396
Page Size (bytes): 4,096
Total Usable
Do you use copypools? How much do you want to spend?
How fast do you need to restore from a monthly?
How about this scenario; it is just an idea, I don't actually do it -
make a 2nd copypool that stays on site. Don't do any reclaims of it.
At the start of the month do a db snapshot backup and
Someone sent this to the adsm-l discussion list by mistake. I am passing it
on as a curiosity that companies use excel to report time.
- bill
At 10:42 AM 4/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> <>
>
>Regards,
>Joe Wholey
>TGA Distributed Data Services
>Merrill Lynch
>Phone: 212-647-3018
>Page: 888-637-74
OOPS! - I hit reply instead of forward!
My apologies.
At 11:48 AM 4/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Someone sent this to the adsm-l discussion list by mistake. I am passing it
>on as a curiosity that companies use excel to report time.
>
>- bill
>
>At 10:42 AM 4/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>> <>
>>
>>R
Roy - create a separate tape storagepool for this one customer.
Allow it to use unlimited scratches. After each month's archive
there will be one or more tapes in readwrite access with a status of
full or filling. Update these tapes to readonly, eject them and send offsite.
Whenever you need to f
Jeff,
I unload some of the tsm tables daily and then load them into db2.
The method will depend on your server platform and the target dbms.
My server is on OS/390 and the target is db2. Briefly the process
is a batch job that does 'select * from nodes' with the output
going to a file. the fil
Tom, I like the taste of this food for thought!
I have raised this issue with TSM developers at SHARE and the
short summary of their response is "Cringe". So I don't
think it will happen anytime soon if and most likely it will
never happen. I agree with you completely that it would be
a great
Tom, I am at the same level as you on OS/390 and get the same results,
which is goodness. I think it is sloppy documentation. The online help and the
pdf have all the fields filed in, such as %reclaimable, times_mounted, etc
which make no sense for a random access volume.
At 04:36 PM 5/2/2002 -
anagement product that used DB/2 as its
>database underneath. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE.
>
>Every problem we ran into, we got finger pointing - the product people said
>they were waiting for DB/2 to to fix the problem, the DB/2 people said they
>couldn't fix it because it was a product p
Christo,
Can you teel what sql query is running? I know some queries are
really terrible, especially 'select * from volumeusage". Is there some
options in the TDSSMA to limit what queries are done?
I run a large tsm erver on OS/390 also. I can do a select of
all the occupancy data in 9 minute
Ricky,
The current tsm sql engine doesn't have enough columns to give you the
answer you are looking for. I suggest this alternate procedure;
1. Do a 'q occ nodename', add up the files and space used values for the primary pools.
2. Do an export command with preview=yes - 'exp nodename filed=bac
I know it isn't in 5.2.0. I don't know when it will be delivered.
Bill
At 01:50 PM 7/8/2003, you wrote:
>Is the collocation groups feature in TSM 5.2.0 or is it further out? If
>further out, any word on how far out?
>
>David
--
Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge Ma.
I am running tsm on mvs. If this happened to me, I would
take an svc dump and open a pmr with IBM. TSM keeps
running, the dump process doesn't crash it.
But I am in the process of rehosting to solaris. I have 2 questions,
first how would I get the same type of dump on solaris, & second,
has anyo
Duane,
I don't have an answer for your problem, but I can tell you the same thing
happens on solaris.
My main servers are using raw partitions as recommended and they scream.
But to put up a test server I use space on filesystems. For a server to run decently
the
filesystem has to be mounted wi
Charles,
In addition to all the other good answers to this post, you can add this to
your argument
with the dba's. TSM is NOT a tape management system in the classic sense of
that type of
product. Classic tape management systems returns a tape to scratch after some
policy driven number
of day
ITSM has announced a special version of tsm to meet regulatory needs.
I forget the exact details, I think there is an extra charge.
A query license output includes these 2 lines -
Is Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention in use ?: No
Is Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention licensed ?:
only takes data from the api and
needs a content manager type product to front-end it.
- bill
At 01:49 PM 12/1/2004, you wrote:
>On Dec 1, 2004, at 12:18 PM, William F. Colwell wrote:
>
>>ITSM has announced a special version of tsm to meet regulatory needs.
>>I forget the exact
Zoltan,
Retonly=nolimit will keep the last version of a deleted file forever.
If the filenames in the directories are static, then it doesn't matter, but if
files are
being deleted, retonly=0 will give the fastest expiration from the server. I
suggest
a little grace period, say retonly=7.
Hope
The old query content command can provide information which could give the
answer
if properly massaged. I can get the information but I am weak on the massaging.
This macro will generate another macro to issue query content commands with
count=1 and
count=-1 parameters which say to report on th
Joel, I made a .bat file to start dsmadmc in the mac directory,
then I made a shortcut to execute the .bat file. Here is the file -
cd macs
set dsm_dir=c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient
set dsm_config=c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsm.opt
"c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmadmc.ex
Ricardo,
I will be rehosting soon from OS/390 to either W2k or sun.
What precisely was your capacity issue? We are leaning to W2k
right now, if our requirements are below your problem we may be
OK with W2k.
TIA,
Bill
At 03:39 PM 11/11/2002, you wrote:
>Not to mention the uptime difference that
Matt - I recently did the same server upgrade and got the same
result doing cleanup backupgroups -- 0 anything deleted.
I have never been clear on the history of the problem, that is
what server levels caused it. So I have to wonder if the cleanup
command still has a bug in it for the OS/390 serv
Sam,
Even though the ptf coverletter says to do an upgradedb, it isn't
necessary coming from 4.2.2.*. I called in a pmr on this and
level 2 confirmed it.
So, what you are seeing is your server in normal operation.
Bill
At 04:54 PM 12/5/2002, you wrote:
>I have just installed the 4.2.3 server u
Mark, are you referring to an application like
"IBM® Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms"?
(see http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/ondemand/mp/ )
The last time I looked at this, I saw that it did use TSM as a 2nd
level store, but it doesn't use the HSM client. Instead it uses archive
and
Tom, I have the same setup as you except the server is at 4.2.3.1.
I saw the same thing, mangled commands; I am glad someone else
saw it. I thought of opening a pmr, but didn't - it is too random and
not really a big deal.
Bill
At 02:44 PM 12/16/2002, you wrote:
>I recently installed 5.1.5.0 cl
Tom, I have seen the server get sluggish after running a long time,
and I suspect a memory leak was the cause. I can't remember if 4.2.1.9
had the problem. I am at 4.2.3.2 and it is running good.
Bill
At 11:37 AM 12/24/2002, you wrote:
>We are running a 4.2.1.9 TSM server under OS/390. We start
Hi Bill -
I am way behind on the list, but I think I can help you.
First there isn't any sql I know of that will do what you want.
But, the old query content command will give you the answer, you just need
to post process the output.
The steps are
1. make a macro file of 'q con' commands for
Mike -
I had this happen many years and releases ago when I was moving the
diskpool from one device to another.
I got rid of the problem volumes by doing a restore volume on them;
of course this assumes you are using copypools.
Do 'restore v preview=yes' and get the tapes back from offsite.
Mar
Tom,
the command you are looking for is 'slip'. You can code the command,
described in painful detail in the system commands, and enter it on the console,
or you can add it to sys1.parmlib(ieaslp00) and issue the 'set slip=00' command.
I see that the requester is OAM, not adsm even though adsm t
Joe - I have seen the same thing and reported it to IBM,
but so far they have just given me a list of things to check.
I encourage you to call it in too, if they see another account having
the same problem, it might prompt them to work harder on it.
Everything on the server and client checks out f
Matt,
Can you tell me the Microsoft patch number? I searched the ms website
and can't find it.
Thanks,
Bill Colwell
At 01:11 PM 2/11/2004, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>We had previosly been using a MS supplied patch that would close the
>MS OUTLOOK .pst file in 2 minutes of inactivity. That a
Hi Ryan,
I am at the tail end of a conversion from OS/390 to solaris. I don't have
a document to share with you. One nice thing that helped a lot is to do an
"export server filed=none" to a disk file on OS/390, FTP it using bin to the UNIX box.
On the UNIX box define a devicetype to see the dire
of data already on tape. Or did you not move any data from
>the OS/390 side and just start with fresh backups?
>
>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
>William F. Colwell
>Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:42 PM
>To:
would all
>be converted to the UNIX platform, it would be nice if the new media manager could
>see the tapes and recognize them as the same. I may have to see if IBM could look
>into making that work
>
>Thanks!
>
>Ryan
>
>-Original Message-
>From: ADSM: Dist S
Allen,
This is a bug, the report title is --
IC39306: DELETE FILESPACE COMMAND DOES NOT PROPERLY SHOW HOW MANY BACKED UP OBJECTS
ARE BEING DELETED.
- bill
At 02:45 PM 2/19/2004, you wrote:
>I'm experimenting with TSM 5.2.2.1 on AIX 5.2; I find that for many
>long-running processes, the Q PROC
Bruce,
The tsm or automatically provides a 24 hour time range in the sql it generates
and sends to the server. So you will automatically get a report for the 24 hours
prior to the start time.
To experiment, define your report and right click on it, select 'refresh with the
scheduled time'.
Hop
Hello,
I have a sun server at 5202. I tried to install 5221, but the install script said I
had
to accept the license in 5220. So it appears that unlike most other upgrades
where I can jump from almost any older version to the latest version, you can't do this
for 5221 and later. You must go to
Robert,
did you change the tsm server name during the upgrade? This will cause
password prompting because the password is stored in the windows registry
in a key with the name of the server.
In regedit, go to hkey_local_machine\software\ibm and drill down to
see what I mean.
Bill
At 08:17 AM 3
David,
IBM still does charge by node if you say the node is not a server.
It is up to us, the customers, to characterize the machines to be backed up
and then buy the proper number and kind of licenses.
If you say a machine is a single user desktop, even if it has 2 processors and
has more raw p
David, a little of my history with tsm is in order.
I have been with it since v1 r1. Back then there wasn't any audit license command or
any other tool to tell me what the usage was. I asked the salesman how to figure it
out and he had no clue either.
I developed my own reports using db2 (tsm d
Gretchen,
Hello!
I just tried installing using the -R option and it worked fine.
I install tsm to the default directory and run the library manager from it.
Then I install to other directories and run server in those; I currently have 4
alternate installations.
The command I used is -
pkgadd -
he -a option. What do you
>have in your admin file?
>
>Regards,
>Gretchen
>
>On Apr 14, 2004, at 4:58 PM, William F. Colwell wrote:
>
>>I install tsm to the default directory and run the library manager
>>from it.
>>Then I install to other directorie
At 07:56 AM 6/10/2004, you wrote:
>I already performed the move data from the primary pool to another primary
>pool. I guess TSM cant figure out that the primary copies are in a
>different primary storage pool than where they were origianlly backed up
>from.
>
>A "DELETE FILES node filespace STG=
Hi Pavel,
I just went thru this too. The support center pointed me in the right direction, here
is
their response.
"This is xxx x with IBM TSM Support. I am responding to you regarding PMR
n.xxx. I saw what you were referring to w/the number of scratch tapes that show up
in the q libvo
Charles,
See http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0458.html?Open
This was in a recent IBM redbooks newsletter. It discusses SATA performance
and to me it says that the tsm backup diskpool is not a good use for SATA.
Sequential volumes on SATA may be ok.
Hope this helps,
Bill
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