I've never seen MORE than maxdumptasks running on our system, and I'm pretty sure my phone would ring when other tape jobs couldn't allocate.
In my case, I have several classes with different stack values. I've seen the case where one STACK dump is the only remaining task and it has LOTS of volumes to dump. In that case STACK was the only thing enlongating the backup window. Say 100 3390-3's would fit on a volume, I set stack to 50 so they would use 2 tasks. > > Yes. 99 sounds like a good value to ensure you get everything on the tape, > BUT, HSM divides the total number of volumes to dump by the STACK value to > determine the number of tasks to run. MAXDUMPTASKS DOES NOT APPLY WHEN > USING STACK!!! So 99 can over- or under-allocate your tape drives. Tony > Pearson promised that he would fix this, but they never got around to it. > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
