Re: 3592 tape labels

2007-02-08 Thread Josef Weingand
You should use 8 character reporting on the library in order to recognize different type of media (JJ, JA, JB, etc) Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Josef Weingand Senior IT Specialist Technical Sales Systems Storage IBM Deutschland Mobil +49 171 55 26 783 - Homeoffice Tel. +49 8845 757421

Re: Pricing model for 5.4

2007-02-08 Thread Remco Post
Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: Just one of my pet peves with this product. I just went through this with someone and it looks to me like the changes that were made since the last time have dramatically increased the cost here. Having to contact someone to figure out pricing makes no sense when you

Re: Tape drive zones for FC drives - best practices

2007-02-08 Thread Remco Post
Schneider, John wrote: Greetings, My habit in regards to zoning FC tape drives has always been to put one host HBA in a zone with all the tape drives it should see, and to have a separate zone for each host HBA. For example, in a situation with 2 host HBAs and 10 tape drives, I would

Re: large files not restoring..

2007-02-08 Thread Richard Sims
On Feb 7, 2007, at 11:35 PM, Gerald wrote: I setup a new AIX 5.3 server and created a JFS2 file system of substantial size. However, when I restore a directory of Notes NSF files (TSM archive of a UNIX directory of NSF files), some files are failing to restore with the message file over user or

How can I fixed VSAM I/O pages?

2007-02-08 Thread LFD Steinmetz, Roland
Hello, i read in the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Performance Tuning Guide SC32-0141-00, following Performance Recommendations for z/OS Server: VSAM I/O pages can be fixed to allow a faster throughput of data for operations involving the database, the recovery log, and all storage pool volumes.

Is there a v5.4 64 bit AIX client still?

2007-02-08 Thread John C Dury
I've upgraded our AIX TSM server to v5.4 but can't find the v5.4 64 bit AIX clients. I looked on the ftp site and also on passport advantage and neither seems to have them. Am I missing something? Thanks.

Re: Tape drive zones for FC drives - best practices

2007-02-08 Thread Kauffman, Tom
My TSM server has six HBAs for tape use and my 3584 has 16 tape drives. These are configured as 8 tape drives and 3 HBAs each on two switches. This gives me 11 aliases per switch. I have just three zones in each switch, one for each HBA. All eight tape drives are defined to each zone. I've been

Re: Is there a v5.4 64 bit AIX client still?

2007-02-08 Thread Richard Sims
On Feb 8, 2007, at 10:29 AM, John C Dury wrote: I've upgraded our AIX TSM server to v5.4 but can't find the v5.4 64 bit AIX clients. I looked on the ftp site and also on passport advantage and neither seems to have them. Am I missing something? Thanks. John - See Installing the AIX client in

Re: Pricing model for 5.4

2007-02-08 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Kauffman, Tom I second that. In general, my approach is that any product the vendor is too ashamed to post pricing for is a product not worth considering. There is no issue of shame here. Buying software at the enterprise level is not like going to

Syntax for archiving from the command line

2007-02-08 Thread Richard Mochnaczewski
Hi *, I'm encoutering some errors when trying to archive from the command line in AIX. I have two directories I want to archive and all subdirectories : /exp1 /exp2 I've created a file called filelistarchive and have put the following entries : /exp1 /exp2 but it will only archive the

AW: [ADSM-L] Syntax for archiving from the command line

2007-02-08 Thread Thomas Rupp
You cant't archive directories AND all its files using -FILELIST See the Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide, processing option filelist: If an entry in the filelist indicates a directory, only that directory will be processed and not the files within the directory. HTH Thomas

Re: Syntax for archiving from the command line

2007-02-08 Thread Andrew Raibeck
You don't find the info in help for -FILELIST since is for files only, not directories. Try: dsmc archive /exp1/ /exp2/ -subdir=yes tack on -archmc= if you want to specify a management class other than the default. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage

Re: Pricing model for 5.4

2007-02-08 Thread Kauffman, Tom
We all know software of all types is subject to various discounts, from a quantity aspect or a concurrent purchase aspect, or whatever. And I know that we will see the 'base', pre-discount prices when we get our passport advantage renewal quote. There is absolutely no reason these 'base' prices

Re: upgrade from 3583 to 3500

2007-02-08 Thread Kelly Lipp
Three choices, I suppose: install the new library and load the old tapes, marked read only, into it and issue move data commands. The other is to have both libraries configured and issue move data commands across libraries. Finally, have both libraries configured and don't do any move datas.

Re: Is there a v5.4 64 bit AIX client still?

2007-02-08 Thread BEYERS Kurt
John, There exists only a 64bit TSM API, but the BA client is 32bit. I was surprised too when I was looking for a 64bit client. best regards, Kurt Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager namens John C Dury Verzonden: do 8/02/2007 16:29 Aan: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Option other than a Backupset: Help!

2007-02-08 Thread Dksh Cssc
What's the signifance difference between backupset and sysback(bare metal fn)? Thanks and Warmest Regards, __ Joni Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 01/23/2007 11:40 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: Tape drive zones for FC drives - best practices

2007-02-08 Thread Richard Rhodes
We also define one zone per host hba with all tape drives. Actually, since we have multiple libraries, I do a separate zone for each hba+lib combination. Yes, I've read and been told that a zone should only contain one hba/device (tape drive, array adapter port). fyi: A very long time ago on

Re: Pricing model for 5.4

2007-02-08 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Luckily I was at the dentist when the first response came out and I've had time to take a few breaths. I'm on the same page as Tom here. I think we all know how pricing works and that there are discounts involved, that's no surprise. Seems to me IBM wants to continually change the pricing model to

Re: Pricing model for 5.4

2007-02-08 Thread Kelly Lipp
OK, I've resisted as long as I could. As you can all imagine, I have numerous conflicting thoughts about this. In no particular order... The model had been one way just too darn long. Frankly, it was just time to change it up. Dual core/Quad core seemed like a good opportunity. Remco, no the

Here is some very negative press about TSM

2007-02-08 Thread Kelly Lipp
Folks, http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci124 1036,00.html?track=sy60 Interesting. I would suggest a flood of email to her suggesting she is full of baloney. We questioned our folks at IBM about this and did get a response. They were very disappointed by

Re: Pricing model for 5.4

2007-02-08 Thread Kauffman, Tom
Thanks for the links, Kelly. IIRC, the TSM announcement notice just pointed to the passport advantage main entry and I had to log in and wander around before I found these. It would have been nice if the announcement had linked directly to the chart. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original

Re: Tape drive zones for FC drives - best practices

2007-02-08 Thread Steve Roder
...anyone see any issues with having a dual-ported card, and using one port for disk access, and the other port for tape? I would think not, but Mgmt is questioning it... Thanks, Steve Roder On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Richard Rhodes wrote: We also define one zone per host hba with all tape drives.

Re: Here is some very negative press about TSM

2007-02-08 Thread Mark Stapleton
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Kelly Lipp http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci124 1036,00.html?track=sy60 Interesting. I would suggest a flood of email to her suggesting she is full of baloney. Hooboy! I don't see that much negative quality to the

Re: Pricing model for 5.4

2007-02-08 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Ok, this will be my last. Having never seen what we were paying for licences you can obviously come to the conclusion you have. I can't and won't post that info but I have data to prove it. I can tell you that IBM has been drooling waiting for our contract to expire I'm sure. The past year has

Migrating an HSM filesystem

2007-02-08 Thread Anker Lerret
We need to move an HSM-enabled filesystem from one TSM client node to another. The old client node is a venerable S70 (Regatta class machine) running AIX 5.2 with a 5.2.2.0 TSM client. The new client node will be running AIX 5.3 with (unless I hear recommendations to the contrary from the list)

Re: Here is some very negative press about TSM

2007-02-08 Thread John Monahan
Like Mark, I didn't see it as that bad, but it wasn't flattering either. I do love the use of anonymous industry experts who are familiar with TSM though. One wonders what company they worked for. On the bright side, it appears the reporter couldn't find anyone critical to go on the record, thus

Re: Migrating an HSM filesystem

2007-02-08 Thread Kelly Lipp
Anker, And after you do this, will you share your experiences with us? The definition of pioneer is the guy with arrows in his back. Thanks, Kelly Kelly J. Lipp VP Manufacturing CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: Expiration

2007-02-08 Thread Helder Garcia
On 2/7/07, Kevin Boatright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The management class has been changed on active files but not on inactive files. Are you refering to backup objects? How did you find out that the above is happening? issuing select statements on BACKUPS table? I'm asking because this is