Hi Richard! Thank you very much for you reply! I have created a PMR for this behavior and I'm very curious how IBM will convince me that this is a feature, rather than a bug! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
-----Original Message----- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 14:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Weird tape utilization Hi, Eric - For better or worse, this is "historically normal" behavior for the product - I see it a lot. A tape will be busy as output for a client session, or be in the process of dismounting, and the server will revert to a scratch tape for the second session which might otherwise have used that tape. Future sessions may all be singular, and the second tape will simply languish. I have an advisory in ADSM QuickFacts for administrators to periodically query for such orphans, as a cause of "tape leak". It would be nice if the product better dealt with such tapes, but... Richard Sims On Sep 8, 2004, at 5:01 AM, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote: > Hi *SM-ers! > I have found something very strange in our TSM tape utilization. > I found several primary storage pool tapes which should be used for > data, > but which are not. > For example, one tape has a read/write, filling status with a > utilization of > about 3% and about 23% reclaimable. However, the last written date is > September 15, 2003!!! > I checked all other servers and they all have several tapes in a > filling > state with a last written date several months ago. > I really cannot explain how this is possible. Does anybody know what's > wrong > here? The tapes have no error state, nor did they have in the past. > Thank you very much for any reply in advance! > Kindest regards, > Eric van Loon > KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **********************************************************************
