Re: Database mirroring, again

2006-02-07 Thread Leigh Reed
I've always been from the many spindles, small disks, JBOD, TSM s/w mirror camp. In the past, I have seen a DB performance increase, by moving the DB architecture to the above configuration. However, like many, I have watched the threads closely and I'm seriously going to consider the RAID0

Mahesh Prasad1 is in IBM Education session.

2006-02-07 Thread Mahesh Prasad1
I will be out of the office starting 07/02/2006 and will not return until 08/02/2006. For any issue or escalation please contact Ravikiran V Gullapalli/India/IBM

Re: Practice Test Paper for 000-799

2006-02-07 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Pranav! Checkout http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/certs/tvdpsm53.shtml. It contains links to study material and a sample test. I used it myself and with success: I passed a week ago. :-) Kindest regards, Eric van Loon -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL

NQR hanging on AIX system

2006-02-07 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We just discovered a strange problem/issue that we can only attest to being a client issue, but I haven't been able to find a difinitive problem/fix. Client=V5.1.6.0 on AIX 4.3 (thus I can not upgrade the client but so much, due to OS and patch levels). The server is AIX V5.3.2.2. This AIX

Re: Database mirroring, again

2006-02-07 Thread Mark Stapleton
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 02/06/2006 01:07:08 PM: I know we've been over this, but times change, and technology changes. Conventional Wisdom on this list has been that the best disk layout for your TSM Database is: JBOD disks, Raw volumes, mirrored by TSM, with 2

question on select for migration statistics / summary table ?

2006-02-07 Thread Rainer Wolf
Hello all, we currently have tsm server 5.3.2.1 on solaris and i have difficulties with the following select: select start_time, end_time,start_time-end_time as - Elapsed Time ,entity,processes, bytes,((cast(bytes as decimal(18,0)) / cast((end_time -start_time)seconds as decimal(18,0/1024

Re: question on select for migration statistics / summary table ?

2006-02-07 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Rainer, From IBM web site : * IC47709: START DATE NOT INITIALIZED FOR DISK POOL MIGRATION. APAR status OPEN Error description The startdate is not correctly initialized for disk pool migration.

Re: question on select for migration statistics / summary table ?

2006-02-07 Thread Volker Maibaum
Hello, this is a known problem. IBM said that it will be fixed in the next release 5.3.2.3 (?). regards, Volker Am Dienstag, den 07.02.2006, 15:24 +0100 schrieb Rainer Wolf: Hello all, we currently have tsm server 5.3.2.1 on solaris and i have difficulties with the following select:

FTP site down?

2006-02-07 Thread Gretchen L. Thiele
Greetings, Where is everyong ftp'ing their TSM software from these days? The ftp hosts that I've been using are index.storsys.ibm.com and service.boulder.ibm.com. Both appear to be empty. Gretchen Thiele Princeton University

Re: FTP site down?

2006-02-07 Thread Ochs, Duane
ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/ Just used it this morning. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gretchen L. Thiele Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 10:10 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: FTP site down?

Re: FTP site down?

2006-02-07 Thread Gretchen L. Thiele
Thanks! Ochs, Duane wrote: ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/ Just used it this morning.

Re: FTP site down?

2006-02-07 Thread Jonathan Siegle
Gretchen L. Thiele said the following on 2/7/06 11:09 AM: Greetings, Where is everyong ftp'ing their TSM software from these days? The ftp hosts that I've been using are index.storsys.ibm.com and service.boulder.ibm.com. Both appear to be empty. Gretchen Thiele Princeton University My mirror

Re: FTP site down?

2006-02-07 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I was about to ask the same question. I have been using service.boulder.ibm.com for years and it stopped responding a few days ago ! Ochs, Duane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 02/07/2006 11:11 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: FTP site down?

2006-02-07 Thread fred johanson
I've always used and recommended ftp.cac.psu.edu At 11:09 AM 2/7/2006 -0500, you wrote: Greetings, Where is everyong ftp'ing their TSM software from these days? The ftp hosts that I've been using are index.storsys.ibm.com and service.boulder.ibm.com. Both appear to be empty. Gretchen Thiele

Offiste Space Reclamation Issues

2006-02-07 Thread Dennis Melburn W IT743
Lately I have been having problems with TSM running offiste space reclamation. I have it scheduled to run reclamation on the offsite storage pools in the evening, and it seems that every evening, I start getting read errors as well as tape drive issues. This only occurs after the schedule kicks

Re: Database restore and mirrored volume question

2006-02-07 Thread Thomas Denier
Quick question, when setting up a new server and restoring the database, is it best to do the restore prior to setting up the mirrored copies, or does it not matter either way? It sounds like you are planning something very much like a server disaster recovery: running multiple 'dsmfmt' commands

Re: FTP site down?

2006-02-07 Thread Jonathan Siegle
Thanks! Small note. The 'cac' domain is going away. I've been working with IBM for some time to replace 'cac' with 'aset'. You will see it in some of the README files, but not all of them.. -Jonathan Siegle fred johanson said the following on 2/7/06 11:36 AM: I've always used and recommended

Re: Database mirroring, again

2006-02-07 Thread Leigh Reed
Mark I totally agree with your logic and in any other environment, hardware mirroring would be a given. However, a few years back, I was involved in a database corruption scenario. An unscheduled outage took down a TSM server. At the time, the database was H/W mirrored with battery backed up

Re: Offiste Space Reclamation Issues

2006-02-07 Thread Aaron Becar
Mel, We were having some trouble in the same area. Let me explain our situation. We where moving our diskpool the tape, every morning, and in the afternoon, we performed our offsite reclamation for all our offsite tapes. What happened is we started to have errors, and the offsite reclamation

Re: Database mirroring, again

2006-02-07 Thread Otto Schakenbos
I in my last class (tsm 5.2) it was still an issue, one way around this issue (if I'm not mistaken) is to configure dbpageshadow in the server options. Kind regards DBPAGEShadow Otto Schakenbos System Administrator TEL: +49-7151/502 8468 FAX: +49-7151/502 8489 MOBILE: +49-172/7102715 E-MAIL:

TDP for Domino on AIX with 2 DPARS

2006-02-07 Thread Laura Mastandrea
AIX 5.2 TSM TDP client 5.3.0.0 TSM API level 32bit = 5.3.2.2 64bit 5.3.2.0 TSM AIX SERVER 5.2.3.3 TSM client 5.3.2.2 Does anyone have TSM TDP for Domino setup using just one single Notes user id. on the AIX system? Is it a requirement for each DPAR to have a different Notes user id.? Thank

Inclexcl for root file system

2006-02-07 Thread L'Huillier, Denis (GTI)
I'm trying to include the root / file system and exclude everything else not previously matched in my inclexcl file. Example... File systems: / /data /data1 /data2 /dump /junk Inclexcl: Exclude /.../* -- Here I want to exclude everything not explicitly stated below which would include /junk

Re: Inclexcl for root file system

2006-02-07 Thread Thomas Denier
From: L'Huillier, Denis (GTI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to include the root / file system and exclude everything else not previously matched in my inclexcl file. Example... File systems: / /data /data1 /data2 /dump /junk Inclexcl: Exclude /.../* -- Here I want to exclude everything not

Re: LIBRARY MANAGER

2006-02-07 Thread Lepre, James
Hello All, I have a question. I have two aix servers(5.2) running Tivoli 5.2.3.5 and between them I am using library management. I would like to setup a third server running windows, and put it into this scenario. Is this a possibility? Thank you in Advance James

Re: TDP for Domino on AIX with 2 DPARS

2006-02-07 Thread Eduardo Esteban
It Is not a requirement to have a different Notes user id for each Domino partition. but when you run dominstall you should specify a different profile directory for each partition. Eduardo ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 02/07/2006 12:22:05 PM: AIX 5.2 TSM TDP client

Re: Inclexcl for root file system

2006-02-07 Thread Gee, Norman
Lookup the domain statement for the client options -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 1:42 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Inclexcl for root file system From: L'Huillier, Denis

Re: NQR hanging on AIX system

2006-02-07 Thread TSM_User
When you do not want to invoke the NQR simply put testflag disablenqr in your dsm.opt file. It would be nice if in a future release of the TSM client code this could be a simple check box. Anyway, quite often in the windows world I have to set that when I am trying to restore a

Processes calling for scratch instead of an existing FILLING tape

2006-02-07 Thread William Boyer
I've noticed that processes will fill a tape and then instead of calling for another FILLING tape in the storage pool, it will mount a scratch tape. I just saw this again this morning...I had a BA STG running from onsite tape to offsite tape. There were 4 tapes in the offsite pool...2 filling..

Re: Database mirroring, again

2006-02-07 Thread John Monahan
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 02/06/2006 01:07:08 PM: I know we've been over this, but times change, and technology changes. Conventional Wisdom on this list has been that the best disk layout for your TSM Database is: JBOD disks, Raw volumes, mirrored by TSM, with 2

Database mirroring, again

2006-02-07 Thread Roger Deschner
Thank you all for your comments. This has been an interesting discussion to follow. My original incentive to change was performance. We're in a database I/O bottleneck situation, and hardware mirroring/striping should definitely help. I'm in the process of changing to it right now, and I'll

Re: Processes calling for scratch instead of an existing FILLING tape

2006-02-07 Thread Kelly Martin
Is the copy storage pool in question collocated? Kelly On 2/7/06, William Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that processes will fill a tape and then instead of calling for another FILLING tape in the storage pool, it will mount a scratch tape. I just saw this again this morning...I