Datapath failover for non IBM Tape Devices

Hi All, I am looking at putting in a solution for data path failover to my tape drives. I have HP LTO6 Ultrium drives which support dual port failover. I am comfortable that basic DPF using NPort and WWN address failover would work to protect the drive and the far switches/GBICs

Re: Disk layout for AIX

Hi, Sorry David I don't understand the VG's are cheap statement. Your Volume groups are made up of 1 or more hdisks provided locally or from the SAN. I've split my VG's into 5 types of VGs Dbvg - Databases Logvg-Logs Instvg -Instance Bkvg- DB Backup Stgvg - Disk storage

ACSLS Timeout

Hi, I have an ACSLS setup with a client and a library manager and get mount failures, but the tape actually mounts. If you look at the activity log for the volume below you can see this. It seems like it is not waiting long enough for an acknowledgement back to the Library manager. Is

Re: Antwort: [ADSM-L] ACSLS Timeout

: 29 January 2015 10:25 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Antwort: [ADSM-L] ACSLS Timeout Hi Jason, you could check for TSM Server option ACSTIMEOUTX. Maybe this will help you out. best regards, Rainer Von:Barkes, Jason jason.bar...@sse.com An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Datum

Convert to TSM Devices or use the rmt device

Hi, I am installing new systems and traditionally would have converted my rmt devices to mt TSM devices. Is this now a legacy activity to perform? We are using LTO Ultrium 6 drives and whilst interrogating the rmt device I can see a lot more tuneable attributes than when converted to

Taking Drives Offline during PD

Hi, I am trying to identify if I have got SAN or drive issues used in our TSM environment. We have 20 drives with 3 paths to each drive hanging off a number of fibre channel adapters. I want to take all but 4 drives offline. So I did the following: 1.Updated drives to

Re: Has anyone been able to get an AIX mksysb backup to backup to TSM -lto or tape using tsm

Lindy, If you need to back up your mksysb's into TSM, I suggest that you run a mksysb to a local filesystem and then backup the file to TSM. Regards, Jason Barkes. Mustard Design Consultants - www.mustard-design.co.uk -Original Message- From: Crawford, Lindy [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: What qualifies as an in use license?

Last year I went through a pricing exercise at another customer of mine. In the end the cost of the licenses were worked out on a point basis supplied by our Tivoli Salesman. Basically, we ended up putting categorising each client based on the type of Platform. i.e. Large Systems, UNIX Boxes

Tivoli Monitoring and The Scheduler

Hi, Has anybody worked on Tivoli monitoring the scheduler on the client node? Any practical help would be appreciated. Regards Jason Barkes.

Server scripting in TSM

Hi, I have been looking at the documentation for scripting through TSM and it isnt that helpful. Does anyone know where I can get some more info on this subject. I have also looked at the sample scripts. One of the questions in my mind is can I do a `sleep` before continuing with a loop.