Removing TSM for Databases

2018-10-31 Thread Thomas Denier
We have a 64 bit x86 Linux server on which TSM for Databases (for Oracle) 7.1 was installed but never used. We would like to remove this TSM component. I have so far been completely unsuccessful in finding instructions for doing this. Where is the uninstall procedure documented? Thomas Denier

Re: counting files in directories for a node

2017-11-16 Thread Thomas Denier
My previous response omitted the "type='FILE'", which is needed to get the result you want. Thomas Denier, Thomas Jefferson University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 10:1

Re: counting files in directories for a node

2017-11-16 Thread Thomas Denier
nclude copies of recently deleted files and copies of older versions of recently updated files. Thomas Denier, Thomas Jefferson University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 10:18 T

Odd ANR2716E messages

2017-10-13 Thread Thomas Denier
s. Does anyone know of an explanation for the odd combination of consistent behavior on a 24 hour time scale and inconsistent behavior on a 30 second time scale? Thomas Denier, Thomas Jefferson University The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential informa

Re: ndmp

2017-08-01 Thread Thomas Denier
/marketing event for the Spectrum family of products. The IBM representative who responded was not as bluntly dismissive of NDMP as our Commvault representative, but he sounded decidedly unenthusiastic when he mentioned NDMP as a possible approach to NAS backups. Thomas Denier, Thomas Jefferson

Re: doing something like an incremental restore

2017-06-21 Thread Thomas Denier
See the documentation for the "fromdate" and "fromtime" options. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 15:23 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] doing something like an incremental

Re: Multiple NFS mounts to same DataDomain

2017-02-14 Thread Thomas Denier
er overall throughput with multiple streams of "move data" commands. I used the "-P" option of "xargs" to manage the multiple streams. Thomas Denier, Thomas Jefferson University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Beh

Re: Archive deletion

2016-10-25 Thread Thomas Denier
on. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, Eric van (ITOPT3) - KLM Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 07:57 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Archive deletion Hi guys! I was always under

Re: Prompted Clients Missing backups

2016-10-24 Thread Thomas Denier
just before leaving work and starting them up just after arriving at work. More exotic possibilities would include network maintenance or upgrades that are being performed piecemeal outside of office hours. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: Decommision VM?

2016-10-03 Thread Thomas Denier
ast backup session). Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David Ehresman Sent: Monday, October 03, 2016 12:50 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Decommision VM? I decommissioned a VM o

Re: occupancy

2016-09-16 Thread Thomas Denier
If the storage pools are both sequential, move nodedata dino from=devt_prim to=win2k_prim will consolidate all of the DINO C drive backup files into the WIN2K_PRIM storage pool. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L

Re: Invoking dsmadmc from powershell

2016-09-02 Thread Thomas Denier
2016 begint=04:01 endt=12:00' # Return to original location. Pop-Location Each of the TSM administrator commands enclosed in apostrophes is on a single line in the script; I suspect that the commands will be split in the process of e-mail transmission. Thomas Denier, Thomas Jefferson Unive

Extra client sessions

2016-08-31 Thread Thomas Denier
servers runs under zSeries Linux on a z10 BC. Each server has a VIPA address with two associated network interfaces on different subnets. I would welcome any suggestions for finding the underlying cause of the odd behavior. Thomas Denier, Thomas Jefferson University The information contained

Re: removing offsite data for a particular node

2016-06-03 Thread Thomas Denier
he vault is very tight, this might entail the use of a temporary storage location separate from either the vault or your data center. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Friday, Ju

Fixing level for ASNODENAME vulnerability

2016-02-24 Thread Thomas Denier
that the fixing level is 6.3.5.1. Two cells to the right in the same row customers are advised to contact IBM support and request 6.3.5.110 or later. Am I missing something that makes it possible for the two cells to be logically compatible? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University The information

Re: Copy Mode: Absolute misunderstanding

2016-01-22 Thread Thomas Denier
Is RETONLY also set to 30 days? If RETONLY is longer than 30 days, backup copies some files deleted before the absolute backups would be retained for more than 30 days after the absolute backups. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Future of Web client

2015-12-14 Thread Thomas Denier
for Java plugins and Microsoft Edge, the successor to Internet Explorer, has never supported Java plugins. Does IBM have a long term strategy for delivering the Web client functionality as support for Java plugins becomes increasingly rare? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University

Operations Center browser requirements

2015-11-24 Thread Thomas Denier
the bullet point were as shown, it would be clear that versions 9 and 10 were supported but not version 11. As it is, I see no way of determining which reading IBM really intended. Is there any IBM document in which the browser requirements are stated unambiguously? Thomas Denier Thomas Jeffer

Re: tsm server restore

2015-11-19 Thread Thomas Denier
- Are the device drivers on the physical system compatible with the virtual devices provided by the virtualization environment? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use

Re: sql assistance with getting files backed up and their sizes

2015-11-10 Thread Thomas Denier
. The worst growth I have ever seen for individual files was about 30%, not the almost 100% you mention. Retries caused by changing files would be noted explicitly in the client log files. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -Gary Lee wrote: - I have at least two linux clients v6.4 tsm

Re: TS3500 library changes to Max Cartridges and Max VIO slots

2015-10-12 Thread Thomas Denier
I think you will need to quiesce tape activity and execute "audit library" with "refreshstate=yes" on each of the library managers. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Zoltan Forray wrote: Our TS3500 is configured as 2-logical libraries with n-slots configured for ea

TSM 7.1.3 documention

2015-09-30 Thread Thomas Denier
a database restore. Am I missing something, or has the documentation really been hollowed out to the extent I suspect? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the pe

Re: How to dedicate a network port for backup

2015-08-25 Thread Thomas Denier
run as part of the system initialization process. Different implementations/distributions offer different options for doing this, and different sites may have differing conventions on this point. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University The information contained in this transmission contains

Re: Windows and symbolic links

2015-08-14 Thread Thomas Denier
service is typically run under the system account, which typically does not have access to resources owned by other systems. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only

Flashcopy Manager and EMC XtremIO

2015-07-23 Thread Thomas Denier
that Flashcopy Manager supports EMC arrays by way of a non-IBM adapter. His phrasing implied that this support extends to all EMC storage arrays. Does Flashcopy Manager support the XtremIO array or not? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University The information contained in this transmission contains

Re: Tape Encryption

2015-07-08 Thread Thomas Denier
amounts to a TSM DR process. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of McWilliams, Eric Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 2:50 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Tape Encryption We

Operations Center processor requirements

2015-06-09 Thread Thomas Denier
on the other system. Are the estimates from the IBM tool reasonably accurate? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person named above. If you

Re: Moving nodes to a new policy

2015-06-05 Thread Thomas Denier
is used. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul_Dudley Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 8:33 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Moving nodes to a new policy If I have nodes

Re: Documenting TSM

2015-05-27 Thread Thomas Denier
) and a co-worker who was both the backup TSM administrator and the primary system administrator for the MVS system that hosted the TSM server. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Skylar Thompson

Re: 3584 questions

2015-05-22 Thread Thomas Denier
will need to review any such commands executed as part of your automated housekeeping or as part of manual procedures such as adding tape volumes. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -Original Message- We are looking at replacing our 3494 libraries with 3584s. Thinkk that is the correct

Share permission changes

2015-05-11 Thread Thomas Denier
. Based on my limited knowledge of share permissions I wouldn't have expected that either. Is it normal for a share permissions change to have this effect? How easy is it to make a security permissions change while trying to make a share permissions change? Thomas Denier, Thomas Jefferson

ANR3497W

2015-04-23 Thread Thomas Denier
documentation available that provides real help in deciding which option would be best for our situation? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person named above

Re: Linux 6.4 client hangs on starting dsmc

2015-04-16 Thread Thomas Denier
If X11 support is available I would suggest running dsm as well. My site recently had a problem with a Windows client. The dsm command found and reported a bad options file line during initialization. The dsmc command started with no complaints and then behaved strangely. Thomas Denier Thomas

Problem with domain option

2015-03-20 Thread Thomas Denier
in the GUI's validity checking that we can work around (for example, stricter rules about capitalization or extra white space than the scheduler service and the documentation)? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University The information contained in this transmission contains privileged

Restartable restores and command line options

2015-03-20 Thread Thomas Denier
. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination

Re: Problem with domain option

2015-03-20 Thread Thomas Denier
the correct 45. The Windows system administrator used Notepad to delete the en-dash and insert an ASCII hyphen. Once this was done the GUI started with no error messages. Thank you for your assistance. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Fix for privilege escalation bug

2015-03-12 Thread Thomas Denier
systems? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination

Privilege escalation bug

2015-02-25 Thread Thomas Denier
treat the list of affected releases as an explicit assurance that the 5.3 client does not have the vulnerability discussed in the bulletin? The alternative possibility that worries me is that 5.4 is the oldest level IBM thought it worthwhile to check. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University

Re: Privilege escalation bug

2015-02-25 Thread Thomas Denier
me is that 5.4 is the oldest level IBM thought it worthwhile to check. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person named above. If you are not the intended

Re: Privilege escalation bug

2015-02-25 Thread Thomas Denier
to go away some time soon) still running 6.1.3 On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Denier thomas.den...@jefferson.edu wrote: I received a security bulletin from IBM yesterday regarding Tivoli Storage Manager Stack-based Buffer Overflow Elevation of Privilege: CVE-2014-6184

Re: Privilege escalation bug

2015-02-25 Thread Thomas Denier
- we too have old clients going back to 5.3 and older (IRIX?) On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Thomas Denier thomas.den...@jefferson.edu wrote: The body of the bulletin I received states that the affected platforms are AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, and Mac. -Original Message- From

Journal based backup support for Windows 2003

2015-02-20 Thread Thomas Denier
work prevails to this day. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any

Re: Downloading TSM v6.3.5

2015-02-05 Thread Thomas Denier
Advantage and then upgraded to the then current 6.2.4.0. This time I was able to skip the installation of the Passport Advantage download. The process would have been even easier if Passport Advantage made license packages available as separate downloads. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson

Re: TSM rant

2015-01-30 Thread Thomas Denier
date for 7.1.1.200 was second quarter of 2015. That pretty much rules out a 6.2 to 7.1 upgrade, unless you are prepared to live with the bug described above. We are currently at 6.2.5.0, and expect to upgrade to 6.3.5.0 or 6.3.5.100. Thomas Denier, Thomas Jefferson University -Original

Availability of 7.1.1.200 server code

2015-01-28 Thread Thomas Denier
starting an upgrade process with the intention of finishing before end of support for 6.2). Should I give up on Version 7 for the time being and settle for upgrading to 6.3.5.0? Thomas Denier, Thomas Jefferson University The information contained in this transmission contains privileged

Re: TSM on Linux Box

2015-01-21 Thread Thomas Denier
Have you rebooted the system since adding the inittab entry? Entries in inittab are only processed during system initialization. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -Jeanie Bruno wrote- Hello. On a windows box, when installing TSM, there's the option towards the end

DB2 LOCKLIST parameter

2015-01-09 Thread Thomas Denier
to upgrade to TSM 7.1.1.100. We are not currently using deduplication. We may use deduplication for backups of databases on client systems after the upgrade. We don't have the CPU and memory resources to use deduplication for all client files. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University The information

Re: SQL for highest volume label in library

2014-12-11 Thread Thomas Denier
select max(volume_name) from libvolumes where library_name='...' -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, EJ van (ITOPT3) - KLM Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 10:41 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] SQL for highest

Inventory expiration failure

2014-12-09 Thread Thomas Denier
in the nodes SQL table. The server runs under zSeries Linux and uses TSM 6.2.5.0 server code. Are there any known problems that could cause a return code of 19 with no explanation? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital The information contained in this transmission contains privileged

Re: TSM level for deduplication

2014-12-08 Thread Thomas Denier
Bent, TSM 7.1.1.000 had a bug that sometimes caused restores of large files to fail. IBM considered the bug serious enough to warrant removing 7.1.1.000 from its software distribution servers. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: TSM level for deduplication

2014-12-08 Thread Thomas Denier
is indeed still there. I overestimated IBM's ability to keep track of the contents of its own Web sites and FTP servers. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of J. Pohlmann Sent: Monday

TSM level for deduplication

2014-12-05 Thread Thomas Denier
avoided patch levels unless they were the only option for fixing crippling bugs in code we were already using. Is that attitude still warranted? In particular, is that attitude warranted for TSM 7.1.1.100? Has IBM dropped any hints about the likely availability date for TSM 7.1.2.000? Thomas

Re: corrupted db on test system

2014-11-13 Thread Thomas Denier
to the device configuration file. For a 3494 I think you would just need to put the volume in the library and use a library control utility to set the category appropriately. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital The information contained in this transmission contains privileged

Re: Strange tcp_address value

2014-11-06 Thread Thomas Denier
on the clients would help. The two client systems are connecting regularly with addresses in the appropriate subnet. There is no evidence of any current source of 192.168 client addresses. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -Original Message- TCP address is mostly choosen

Re: Strange tcp_address value

2014-11-06 Thread Thomas Denier
with the session origin addresses the nodes are currently using. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Grigori Solonovitch Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 11:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Strange tcp_address value

2014-11-06 Thread Thomas Denier
The /etc/hosts file defines, 'localhost', names for the addresses of the various network interfaces on the TSM server, and some special IP Version 6 addresses (which should be irrelevant, since my employer is still using only IP Version 4). Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Re: Strange tcp_address value

2014-11-06 Thread Thomas Denier
reports failure to connect to an address in the correct subnet. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Kirubhakaran, Wellington Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 12:15 AM To: ADSM-L

Re: Strange tcp_address value

2014-11-06 Thread Thomas Denier
on with addresses in the right subnet. TSM should have replaced the 192.168 addresses in the Nodes table with the session origin addresses that have been used in the last few days. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L

Re: Strange tcp_address value

2014-11-06 Thread Thomas Denier
I found two ANR1639I messages within the last five days. Neither involved a node with a 192.168 address in the Nodes table. One showed a change of GUID, and the other showed an IP address change, with both old and new addresses in legitimate on-campus subnets. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson

Strange tcp_address value

2014-11-05 Thread Thomas Denier
Linux. The two clients are running Windows XP and using TSM 6.2.2.0 client code. The two clients are administered by the same group of people. Does anyone know where the strange address could have come from, or how to get the TSM to track the node addresses correctly in the future? Thomas Denier

Deduplication anomalies

2014-10-22 Thread Thomas Denier
reclamation. Web searches for various groups of keywords related to the second anomaly have turned up nothing recognizably relevant. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only

Re: Script snipet for current hour

2014-10-21 Thread Thomas Denier
You can run something like: select database_name from db where hour(current timestamp)16 The return code will be 0 if the hour is greater than 16 and 11 otherwise. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L

Re: maxscratch

2014-10-09 Thread Thomas Denier
If scratch tapes are also used for purposes other than storage pool volumes, such as database backups, the sum of the maxscratch values should be a bit less than the number of volumes in the library. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: Shared libraries and DR - configuration questions

2014-08-25 Thread Thomas Denier
tape infrastructure. If the hot site provides SCSI libraries the device configuration file updates will include adding records showing the storage slot element numbers for tape volumes. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital The information contained in this transmission contains

Database restore oddity

2014-08-19 Thread Thomas Denier
not directly involved in the restore. Is the behavior described above an expected result of a database restore? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use

Re: Backup fails with no error message

2014-07-22 Thread Thomas Denier
data segment size is about 128 MB and the default memory size is about 1 GB. I am currently trying to get the system vendor to sign off on a request to allow unlimited memory and data segment sizes for backups of the resource group disks. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Re: Backup fails with no error message

2014-07-10 Thread Thomas Denier
/main/UT backup on June 26 and the failed backup on June 27, or in the interval between the success /main/U backup on July 8 and the failed backup on July 9 Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Backup fails with no error message

2014-07-09 Thread Thomas Denier
to the behavior I am seeing. Should I just keep trying the tracing every time a backup fails and hope I eventually get lucky and obtain a useful trace? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Backup fails with no error message

2014-07-08 Thread Thomas Denier
Andy, The failure did not occur when I ran the backup with service tracing. Further testing revealed that the failure no longer occurred even in the absence of tracing. I don't know whether the circumventions mentioned in my original e-mail ever had any real effect. Thomas Denier Thomas

Backup fails with no error message

2014-07-07 Thread Thomas Denier
a message identifier to report. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified

Re: New management class

2014-07-03 Thread Thomas Denier
you have examined the files you are interested in you can exit without starting a restore. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -Original Message- If I move a node to a new management class (e.g. include * 15day), is there a message in either the server actlog

Re: bind all files except .pst to new management class?

2014-06-24 Thread Thomas Denier
the client system. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Arbogast, Warren K Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:50 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] bind all files except .pst to new

Re: 3584 upgrade: 3592-E05 to 3592-E07

2014-06-19 Thread Thomas Denier
status to eliminate any worries about the volumes being reused. You could temporarily increase the reuse delay to give you a bigger window of opportunity for ejecting volumes and/or maintain the normal degree of readiness for restoring older versions of the TSM database. Thomas Denier Thomas

Re: Lib client mounts and firewall timeouts.

2014-05-27 Thread Thomas Denier
manager and its clients. We had the kind of problems you describe when we first set up our current TSM environment. We have never had any trouble with firewall timeouts since we installed libkeepalive and set the appropriate environment variables for the TSM server processes. Thomas Denier Thomas

Re: Bandwidth

2014-05-14 Thread Thomas Denier
of capability. For example, some routers can limit the rate at which data is transferred between a specific pair of addresses. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Re: How does the Backups table get updated?

2014-05-02 Thread Thomas Denier
are still reported, even though the Occupancy table and DB2 client show the reduction. Does anyone know what triggers the update to the backups table to purge the old object records? Have you run 'expire inventory' since the DB2 clients requested deletion of old backups? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson

Exit status from 'dsmserv restore db'

2014-04-14 Thread Thomas Denier
any of the relevant database backup volumes. Is this a known bug? Has it been fixed in a more recent release or maintenance level? Thomas Denier, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Re: Recovering Linux TSM server from partial filesystem failure

2014-03-11 Thread Thomas Denier
not containing a specific word, so that a search for 'sqlcode -980' would find pages containing 'sqlcode' but not '980' (with or without a preceding sign). I don't know whether there is a way to have a minus sign treated as part of a search term. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Re: Daily surge in use of LGTMPTSP table space

2014-02-21 Thread Thomas Denier
. The amount of additional space was chosen because we have historically added database space in 16 GB increments; IBM declined to offer any advice on estimating the amount of space we needed to add. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Daily surge in use of LGTMPTSP table space

2014-01-20 Thread Thomas Denier
client activity that is correlated with the surge. We are not using deduplication. The TSM server is at the 6.2.5.0 code level and runs under SLES 11 SP1 on zSeries hardware. We opened a problem ticket with IBM earlier today, and have just received a request for an assortment of log files. Thomas

TSM server maintenance and shell profile changes

2013-12-05 Thread Thomas Denier
instance utilities. Is it possible that the 6.2.5.0 installer removed everything after that comment (including the 'export') and wrote replacements for the lines added by the 6.2.2.0 installer, but did not replace the 'export'? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Windows installer error

2013-11-19 Thread Thomas Denier
of the 32 bit client. Removing the folder used for files created by unpacking the distribution file does not help. Rebooting does not help. I would welcome any suggestions for resolving this problem. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Re: Windows installer error

2013-11-19 Thread Thomas Denier
, since Microsoft provides instructions for finding out whether a Windows 7 system is 32 or 64 bit. Following these instructions revealed that the copy on my workstation is 64 bit. I was able to install the 64 bit 6.2.4.0 client successfully. Thank you for your assistance. Thomas Denier Thomas

Re: help - tsm vg upgrade test

2013-09-11 Thread Thomas Denier
the following: The first line of the script was #! /bin/sh and the system did not in fact have a binary named 'sh' in /bin. Thomas Denier, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Re: DR with automated library

2013-08-13 Thread Thomas Denier
library. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

DR tests with multiple TSM servers

2013-07-31 Thread Thomas Denier
using a renamed library manager and then update the library definition in the restored database. We would appreciate any advice or warnings from TSM administrators who have run DR tests in environments similar to ours. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Windows client memory leak

2013-07-26 Thread Thomas Denier
seeing this? Is there an available service level with a fix for this, or a prediction for a fix in a future service level? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Re: Rename Node and Rename Filespace

2013-07-09 Thread Thomas Denier
space names. If the node name change is associated with a machine name change (the usual situation at our site) the file spaces should be renamed to match the new machine name. I have no experience with renaming NAS nodes. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Re: select question on backups table

2013-05-07 Thread Thomas Denier
came from. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Re: SELECT statements and column widths

2013-04-17 Thread Thomas Denier
-Neil Schofield wrote: - The fact that only the FILESPACE_NAME column is twice as wide as it should be makes me wonder if it's a bug? It probably has something to do with the possible occurrence of Unicode characters outside the ASCII character set in filespace names. Thomas Denier

Re: TS3500/3584 managed by Linux host

2013-04-15 Thread Thomas Denier
assumption?) A TS3500 is eithter a relabeled 3584 or a compatible successor to the 3584; different Web sites give conflicting information on this point. All communications between the TSM server code and a TS3500 travel over the SAN connections between the two. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson

Re: Moving TSM server from AIX to Linux

2013-04-04 Thread Thomas Denier
. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -Gary Lee wrote: - From: Lee, Gary Haven't tried it with v6, but that's how I moved a server from solaris to suse linux. The linux was running as a guest under VM on our mainframe. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Server upgrade oddities

2013-03-13 Thread Thomas Denier
of CPU time I reluctantly resorted to the 'kill -9' command. I was then able to restart the instance in the background. Is looping after a halt request a known problem for the 6.2.5.0 server level? Thomas Denier, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

6.2.5 server level

2013-02-15 Thread Thomas Denier
to 6.2.4.0 server code. I notice that 6.2.5.0 has been available for a couple of months. Has anyone had strikingly good or bad experiences with the 6.2.5.0 server code level? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Re: Tape library possible replacement - push/pull

2013-02-04 Thread Thomas Denier
has a LUN used for drive operations. At least one drive will be configured as a control path. A drive configured that way will have a second LUN. Commands and data sent to the second LUN will be forwarded to the library manager firmware. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Admin_center account

2013-01-30 Thread Thomas Denier
for refusing to support our TSM installation? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Re: Tape library possible replacement - push/pull

2013-01-25 Thread Thomas Denier
. I don't know whether there are any additional complications if you use library managed encryption or system managed encryption. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

TS3500 test environment

2013-01-09 Thread Thomas Denier
volumes assigned but with no tape drives assigned? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University

Deduplication candidates

2013-01-09 Thread Thomas Denier
of a given database done on different days be likely to have significant numbers of matching blocks? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Re: TS3500 test environment

2013-01-09 Thread Thomas Denier
- you must have at least one drive assigned to each partition. ..Paul At 11:25 AM 1/9/2013, Thomas Denier wrote: I am in the process of setting up a test environment for our Version 6 TSM servers. The servers run under zSeries Linux and are currently at the 6.2.2.0 level. The main motivation

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