All good things

2005-09-29 Thread John Naylor
Thanks to all for past help with those tricky ADSM/TSM issues. The List has been a great reference and sounding board. But all good things come to an end, I'm off to do my own thing, and wishing all of you the best in the future.. John /p

Re: HELP!!!! Migrations taking too long and pools filling up!

2005-08-17 Thread John Naylor
Joni, Looks like you were unlucky and got hit by some extra large backups, which filled up your disk pool faster than it could be emptied I assume this is what caused a lot of backups to be delayed, by media wair. In truth it does sound as if you need more or faster tape drives. That aside what

Re: Long term data retention for retired clients

2005-07-15 Thread John Naylor
Many thanks for the excellent responses to my question Computers are great but organics are better. John /p ** /p The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of

Long term data retention for retired clients

2005-07-14 Thread John Naylor
Hi out there, Just wondering what the consensus is on the best way to retain TSM client data that has to be kept for many years (legal requirement) after the client box is retired. I have consideredf various approaches 1) Export 2) Backup set 3) Create a new domain for retired clients which have

Re: Long term data retention for retired clients

2005-07-14 Thread John Naylor
Further to my query, I have not mentioned archive as this is not a function that we regularly use, but would this be a good candidate for retiring clients, and can you archive a whole drive ie D: thanks, John John Naylor/HAV/SSE 14/07/2005 10:27 To ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L

Re: Script to cancel a process

2005-07-01 Thread John Naylor
Readonly, until the backup transitions to the next file and cannot continue. A bit draconian. The best approach is to have such control externalized via a dsmadmc mechanism, as programmed into a Perl script, for example. Richard Sims On Jun 30, 2005, at 10:58 AM, John Naylor wrote: Hi, I am

Script to cancel a process

2005-06-30 Thread John Naylor
Hi, I am trying to write a script that picks up a process number and then cancels the process/ I cannot get the varable process number into the cancel. Is this possible? If it is what do I need to do ? The script so far is SELECT PROCESS_NUM FROM PROCESSES - WHERE UPPER(PROCESS)='BACKUP STORAGE

Good to hear from Zlatko again

2005-06-28 Thread John Naylor
Welcome back to the list Zlatko It must be 2 years since your last post. John ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy

Re: How would I deterime if a certain directory has been backedup

2005-06-14 Thread John Naylor
Try this sql (change times to suit) SELECT HL_NAME,LL_NAME FROM BACKUPS - WHERE NODE_NAME='YOURNODENAME - AND BACKUP_DATE BETWEEN '2005-06-14 01:30' AND '2005-05-10 10:30' Timothy Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu 14/06/2005 14:39 Please respond

Re: Filespaces on which particular tapes?

2005-06-13 Thread John Naylor
Joni, Try this script /* -*/ /* Script written 01/01/02 by John Naylor */ /* Script Name: Q_TAPE_VOLS*/ /* Description: Display the TAPES that */ /* relate to a specific node */ /* and filespace

Re: TSM 5.3 client support

2005-06-08 Thread John Naylor
Hi Eric, In response to your query is 5,2 server with 5,3 clients supported. This is a general answer because we are not yet on 5.3 IBM has always stated with TSM that one level down is supported and I have seen nothing to contradict this. It would make it very difficult to upgrade if this was

Re: query for mangement class

2005-05-24 Thread John Naylor
Yes, you can do that Bear in mind that the new management class will only be applied to backup versions of files that still exist on the client Backup versions of files that meet the selection criteria, but no longer exist on the client will not be rebound to the new management class They will be

Re: ANR0481W and COMMTIMEOUT setting

2005-05-11 Thread John Naylor
Robert, My commtimeout is set 3600 with no problems Where you are seeing hits where you had none before you may want to consider/alleviate the cause per the description in Admin Ref Specifies how long the server waits for an expected client message during an operation that causes a database

Re: Out of scratch tapes?

2005-05-06 Thread John Naylor
Well, unhappy management springs to mind. But for the short period you are talking about, can't you do one or more of 1) Add extra disk storage 2) Step up reclamation 3) Look at tape reuse delay 4) Check whether you have any filespaces not accessed for a long time. Are their backups still

Re: Restore performance problem

2005-04-01 Thread John Naylor
Thomas, I suspect the media waits are down to the three streams wanting the same tapes If you are really restoring 9 million separate objects then most likely it is going to be the client end writing out the data where the majority elapsed time is spent. What do the session stats show for network

Re: Freezing a node's data - revisiting 'Need to save permanent cop y of all files currently being stored'

2005-03-16 Thread John Naylor
Steve, I presume you don't want to use export As for expiration, the Admin Guide states If a file is bound to a management class that no longer exists, the server uses the default management class to manage the backup versions. When the user does another backup, the server rebinds the file and

Re: Need a script

2005-03-10 Thread John Naylor
Wanda Prather wrote re deleting a single file from a tape C. Next, set up the client's dsm.opt to include ONLY the targeted file and exclude all others include /path/file newmgmtclass . D. Run a backup. When the backup completes, run expiration. Wanda, Maybe I'm having a senior moment, but if

Re: Event Retention Period

2005-03-09 Thread John Naylor
If you want to go back 20 days you need to restore database backup that is 10 days old Then to go back 30 days you need another restore database backup that is 20 days old If you haven't got database backups that go back that far, you can't do it. Norita binti Hassan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: migration and backup

2005-03-04 Thread John Naylor
Your disk pool is way too small. It should be large enough to hold one night's backups If you can't do that, set your hi mig threshold to a low value say 10 or even lower At 80% your backup fills up the remaining 20% of your pool faster than migration can empty it. nghiatd [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: migration and backup

2005-03-04 Thread John Naylor
I use LTO Gen 2. Its read/write speed is 15-20 MB/s more than network speed (100Mbps). So migration is faster than backup Maybe, but 20% of your 18gb pool is not a lot spare, and I do not think you will get a continuous migration process anyway. It will reach zero and then go all the way back to

Re: One for the Techies.... Domain ordering....

2005-03-01 Thread John Naylor
Tony, Did you stop/start the scheduler task on the client after you edited the options file. John Tony Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu 01/03/2005 15:26 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu To ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu cc

Re: Expiration

2005-02-01 Thread John Naylor
Eric, Run Q OCC to a file before and after expiration John Jones, Eric J [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu 01/02/2005 12:04 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu To ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu cc Subject Expiration Good Morning.

Re: Server Performance decreasing rapidly: help!

2005-01-28 Thread John Naylor
Joni Moyer wrote I was just wondering how my bufpoolsize region size? My region size is 512MB and my bufpoolsize is 270336KB which equals out to 264MB. Is that an incorrect statement? I'm still trying to find the command to increase my maxquickfree bytes. Does anyone know this command? As

Re: Does an inactive client need a licence

2005-01-27 Thread John Naylor
Eric van Loon wrote TSM's license counter starts counting as soon as a client starts backing up. A license is not returned until all the client's data has been removed from the server. So, as long as the inactive clients are storing data on your TSM server (no matter how old), you are using a

Re: Server Performance decreasing rapidly: help!

2005-01-27 Thread John Naylor
Joni, Your bufferpool size is set higher than your region size, I did not know you could do that I would certainly look at increasing your region size, but you need to check how much real memory is available in your lpar, and how much TSM is actually using. FWIW I am using a region size of 768 mb

Does an inactive client need a licence

2005-01-26 Thread John Naylor
People, My question is I have just run audit licence and it shows as audited the number of registered clients However a number of registered clients have not backed up for a few months. My question is do these inactive clients need a licence Does anyone know IBM's official take on this. thanks.,

Re: Tape volume in wrong storage pool/devclass?

2005-01-25 Thread John Naylor
Joe Howell wrote As the volume was created three weeks or so ago, and my oldest TSM log isn't that old, I can't pursue this any further. Somehow this volume got created and reused without one of TSM or RMM knowing about it, but I can't figure out how. Try looking at TSM volhist, z/OS system

Re: Shrink ITSM-DB

2005-01-06 Thread John Naylor
Hans Dieter wrote Hey out there, is there any other possibility than unloading the TSM-DB to shrink the dbvol? # query db Available Assigned Maximum MaximumPage Total Used Pct Max. Space Capacity Extension ReductionSizeUsable Pages Util Pct (MB)

Re: What does it backup?

2005-01-05 Thread John Naylor
Rick, The select below suitably tailored for node_name and backup_date will tell you what was in that backup SELECT HL_NAME,LL_NAME FROM BACKUPS - WHERE NODE_NAME='YOURNODE' - AND BACKUP_DATE BETWEEN '2005-01-04 21:00' AND '2005-01-05 07:00' John Rick Harderwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:

Re: tape prob

2004-11-19 Thread John Naylor
Hashim, Shukrie asked how to move data from volume 002081 which had multiple read errors without impact on the database Well you can try cleaning the drive, you can try different drives with move data, but if there are real bad sectors on the tape then you will only be able to get any remaining

Re: client idling

2004-11-18 Thread John Naylor
Tim Piqueur wrote re problems with client sessionsuffering frequent termination ANR0481W Session 16061 for node ASPIDITES (WinNT)terminated - client did not respond within 60 seconds. Try altering your server option CommTimeOut to something like 3600 60 seconds is way too short

Re: Case of the shrinking database...

2004-11-09 Thread John Naylor
David Moore wrote Any ideas on why the TSM DB is shrinking? This is going to be down to data expiration. Does your activity log show that expiration is running longer and expiring more. Did you have the opposite pattern a while back where you database grew over a short period. What I find

Re: General question

2004-11-04 Thread John Naylor
Robert Ouzen queried The bytes transferred was 14.14GB. migration moved 8,910,381,056 bytes The difference could be down to backup retries ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It

Re: Tips on backing up over slow networks please

2004-10-27 Thread John Naylor
Neil, A thankless task There is no magic tweak to TSM that will make it go faster than its bottleneck, in your case the network will allow. One option might be to look at centralised servers, but if this is not possible, then you need to work out the best speed your network link will provide say

Re: Poor restore performance Windows-client

2004-10-27 Thread John Naylor
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hagery Last week we did a restore of 15 MB and 4000 small html-files. The performance was bad, it took 57 minutes to restore the 4000 html-files and 15 MB. The back-up is very fast. FTP between client and server is also

Re: ANR9999D

2004-10-26 Thread John Naylor
Joni, I think DEMO_EXPIRED is prett Joni Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26/10/2004 12:36 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject ANRD Hello All! I am getting a very bizarre message and

Re: ANR9999D

2004-10-26 Thread John Naylor
Joni, I think DEMO_EXPIRED is pretty conclusive Joni Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26/10/2004 12:36 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject ANRD Hello All! I am getting a very

Re: Conversion to 3592 tapes...

2004-10-14 Thread John Naylor
David, I assume from your note that you are retaining the 9840 drives and the problem is just that they are over subscribed. So assuming you will have still have reduced access to the 9840 drives , I would have just made your existing 9840 tapes read only and changed your disk storage pool/s

Re: How do you guys feel about polls?

2004-10-07 Thread John Naylor
Mark Bertrand wote ina query about number of storage pools Good point Ray, that's fine. I will post the averages tomorrow morning and implement the directly to me response idea for the next poll. Mark when you give out the results, can you also tell us what is the reasoning behind your question.

Re: shark discussions?

2004-10-06 Thread John Naylor
Dont know about a discussion forum but try these urls Generall ESS web page is http://www.storage.ibm.com/disk/ess/index.html?/index.html ESS Host Systems Attachment Guide - http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/f2bhs05.pdf Implementing the ESS in your environment -

Re: How does it work?????

2004-10-01 Thread John Naylor
Bo, Do not know the answer to how TSM wrires to the pool, but I vaguely remember that this question has been asked before, so try a search of the archives If you mean extended format ie. greater than 4 gb for your storagepool logical volume, then no you cannot do it. DB2 supports extended format,

Re: How to see what files are being backed up.

2004-08-26 Thread John Naylor
Something like this SELECT HL_NAME,LL_NAME FROM BACKUPS - WHERE NODE_NAME='YOURNODE' - AND BACKUP_DATE BETWEEN '2004-08-25 18:00' AND '2004-08-26 08:00' Jason Couto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25/08/2004 19:32 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Running periodic Full backups

2004-08-26 Thread John Naylor
Maybe, worth another think about this Are tape mount delays really the problem ? If you have tape robot this is rarely a major factor in slow restores, Usually it is the network or the client that is the bottleneck Have you looked at the restore session stats. If you really think that tape mounts

Re: volhistory error

2004-08-06 Thread John Naylor
Slag, Jerry B. wrote TSM currently at 5.2.2.2 on z/OS 1.4 The volume history file shows a backupset on tape 101334 but a query or delete for backupset returns nothing. How do I get rid of the entry in the volume history? Try del volh tod=today vol=101334 type=backupset force=yes

Recommended 5.1 client fot Win2k

2004-07-14 Thread John Naylor
TSM host z/OS 5.1.8 Finally getting our win2k clients on to 5.1 code. A while back I was recommended 5.1.6.2 as a good version. Is this still the favourite Recommendations please thanks, John ** The information in this E-Mail

Re: Maximum database volumes?

2004-07-08 Thread John Naylor
Well, I have a 35 gbTSM database on Mod 9s, two volumes per physical device and I have not noticed any worse performance since moving from mod 3s. I would have preferred to have one logical volume per physical device but TSM does not currently support extended vsam (over 4gb) If/when TSM does

Re: Maximum database volumes?

2004-07-08 Thread John Naylor
Christo, I bow to your experience of the larger scale requirement. Average nightly throughput on the z/OS TSM server 5.1.8 would be 350 gb Database backup to 9840 tape takes 2 hours (28 gb) ie, 80% used of my 35 gb. Lpar mips would be about the same as yours but by no means dedicated, sharing

Re: TSM DB growing, but number of files remains the same ...

2004-05-04 Thread John Naylor
Arnaud, Have you queried the activity log over the last week As your database is increasing so raoidly the client session stats should show clients with large numbers of objects backed up PAC Brion Arnaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] alpina.com

Re: TSM DB growing, but number of files remains the same ...

2004-05-04 Thread John Naylor
Lawrence Clark wrote has someone increased the number of days that activity is retained in the db? This is a user controlled value SET ACTLOGRETENTION ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally

Re: AW: Internal Memory Managment TSM @MVS

2004-04-28 Thread John Naylor
Stefan/Zoltan, I would be interested in reading more on this. I cannot find any hits for pmr92547 on ibm website Have you got an apar reference thanks, John ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally

Re: to know volumes of a node

2004-04-19 Thread John Naylor
Try these ways Unsupported commandshow volume nodename SQL select distinct volume_name,node_name from volumeusage where node_name = upper('nnn') - and stgpool_name = upper('nnn') Geetha Thanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] n

Rwcommended 5.1 client fot Win2k

2004-04-14 Thread John Naylor
I have been asked for advice on the best 5.1 client for Win2k. I tend to believe that the most recent version although it fixes some previous faults, potentially has some nasty undiscovered faults of its own, What would the list recommend. thanks John

Re: Adding new DB RecLog volumes whilst TSM server is running (on OS390)

2004-04-07 Thread John Naylor
Paul Van De Vijver wrote Because the TSM Server options file (//OPT) is in exclusive use by the TSM started task I have to stop the TSM Server before being able to execute the format job. Your jcl is fine. Check your ADSM started task jcl. Make sure your opt dd is disp=shr regards, John

Re: ANR9999D imexp.c(4574)

2004-02-26 Thread John Naylor
Hmm, I had a similar thing recently, where I could not delete a systemobject filespace because of problems with code release 4.2.4 handling a partial object. However there were changes in the way partial objects are dealt with in 5.1, and I now at 5.1.8 I have been able to successfully delete the

Re: Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or Windows platform

2004-02-13 Thread John Naylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote The idea of moving off of OS/390 is because we are taking too much CPU and weekly IPLs. Why weekly ipls? One of the big advantages of mainframe technology is that ipls are (should be) infrequent If your TSM is in a sharing lpar the TSM dispatching priority can be set so

Server schedmode query

2004-02-13 Thread John Naylor
All our backups should run schedmode prompted. OS390 2 10 server runningTSM 4.2.4 Two problem Winnt 5.0 clients running TSM 4.2.3 Every night the scheduled backup kicks in as per normal for both clients, but in both cases an earlier unscheduled backup is already running. Both clients have

ESS model 27

2004-02-13 Thread John Naylor
People, Environment Z/os 1.4 TSM 5.1.6 We will be moving our TSM server environment from ESS F20s (18 gb disks) to ESS 800s (146gb disks) in the near future Currently I have 99 addresses, all emulating 3390-3 disks that provide for database volumes, recovery logs and storage pools. With the

Re: collocation

2004-02-05 Thread John Naylor
Can't comment on offsite reclamation, because cross site tape capability means all reclamation is onsite, but in my environment TSM only selects tapes marked full as reclamation candidates. Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED]@vm.marist.edu on 02/04/2004 08:48:24 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist

End of support for 5.1

2004-01-23 Thread John Naylor
People, Have searched for this without any luck. Have IBM announced any end of supoort dates for ITSM 5.1 I am particularly interested in ITSM for z/OS thanks, John ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be

Re: End of support for 5.1

2004-01-23 Thread John Naylor
Thanks to Orville and Ted, ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to

Re: Réf. : Re: Scheduling question

2004-01-15 Thread John Naylor
Are you sure the client is in schedmode prompted rather than polling mode. I believe the windows default is polling and this could explain what you are seeing. Nicolas Launay [EMAIL PROTECTED]@vm.marist.edu on 01/15/2004 02:30:20 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL

Re: Unavailable volume

2003-12-08 Thread John Naylor
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Re: data in wrong stgpool

2003-11-26 Thread John Naylor
Well the answer really depends on the number of clients and volumme of data you are talking about. Unless you have a tape shortage issue, I would be tempted to leave the offending copies and let expiration do the job over time. If there are only a small number of clients you could export them,

Re: export/import

2003-11-13 Thread John Naylor
Joni, If your tms is DFRMM there should be no problem about reading another systems tape. The problem would come if you wanted to write to it. John Joni Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]@vm.marist.edu on 11/12/2003 07:01:11 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:

Re: export/import

2003-11-13 Thread John Naylor
Joni, No you don't lose the original when you export John ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended

Re: Query Event for Previous day shows status In Progress

2003-11-05 Thread John Naylor
Your schedule window for yesterday has not expired, hence in progress your enquiry for today is looking at start time this evening hence future. cheers, John ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be

Number of Sessions?

2003-11-04 Thread John Naylor
Any help welcome, I am currently seeing an intermittant problem with my TSM 4.2.2 0S390 server refusing to acceprt any new sessions after seeing these messages ANRD BPX1COMM(1978): ThreadId20025 BindListenSocket: ANRBND(2) failed: rv=-1 rc=1115 rsn1=744C rsn2=7247 ANR5099E Unable to

Re: Number of Sessions?

2003-11-04 Thread John Naylor
friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. John Naylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/04/2003 06:22 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Number of Sessions? Any help welcome

Re: Backup Versioning / Retention Policy Survey

2003-11-03 Thread John Naylor
I expect you will get many replies, so here goes my small offering. 1) There is no such thing as an industry standard for backup 2) You need to find out/understand you r bisiness requirements for restore and keep your backups sufficient to meet that requirement. Merryman, John A. [EMAIL

Re: Space reclaimation by changing retention policy

2003-10-31 Thread John Naylor
Well, If all your data is backed up under the same retention policy and all your data has the full 8 versions, then you could make a mathmatical stab at this, I doubt that this is he case. What I suggest is that you pick one client that is representative of all of the rest You could then try to

Re: delete filespace takes 24hours

2003-10-29 Thread John Naylor
Joachim, I am on os390 2.10 expecting to go z/os shortly and I would expect that size of filespace to be deleted in an hour or so. What does your DB cache hit rate show. If you have any sort of performance monitor such as RMF, I would take a look at that to see if it thinks TSM is short of

Re: AW: delete filespace takes 24hours

2003-10-29 Thread John Naylor
% ! -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: John Naylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 10:11 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: delete filespace takes 24hours Joachim, I am on os390 2.10 expecting to go z/os shortly and I would expect that size of filespace to be deleted

Re: AW: AW: delete filespace takes 24hours

2003-10-29 Thread John Naylor
] cc: Subject: AW: AW: delete filespace takes 24hours what means an o.k. expiration performance? why should it go faster to delete volumes(in 3 pools)? thanks joachim -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: John Naylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 11:21

Re: AW: AW: AW: delete filespace takes 24hours

2003-10-29 Thread John Naylor
: 0 Changed Since Last Backup (MB): 1,119.86 Percentage Changed: 8.11 Last Complete Backup Date/Time: 28.10.2003 16:08:19 thank you and regards joachim -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: John Naylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 12:42 An: [EMAIL

Re: delete filespace takes 24hours

2003-10-29 Thread John Naylor
David, you must have led a sheltered life gosh is pretty mild where I come from David McClelland [EMAIL PROTECTED]@vm.marist.edu on 10/29/2003 03:15:54 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rapid DB Growth

2003-10-27 Thread John Naylor
Well, This is where pulling out regular trending information can be very useful. For example daily summaries of the total number of files backed up, size of backups backup times etc . As you are on os390 that useful tool rexx can be employed here, and the totals uplifted into a suitable pc

Re: SQL select problems

2003-10-21 Thread John Naylor
Well you have to be at the right levels of client and server code for the summary table to provide accurate information. I am still at 4.2 for the majoriity of mine so it does not work for me either, but I get what I want by pulling the data out of the activity log into a file ie. QUERY AC

Re: Online DB Reorg

2003-10-20 Thread John Naylor
OK I ran Remco's sql and it reports my database is 53% fragmented. I know that a fragmented database is the natural state, but is there any level of fragmentation that you should start to get worried at ? Not being a database expert I would say only worry if TSM cache hits start slipping badly,

Re: How to completely expire deleted files

2003-10-13 Thread John Naylor
Farren The thing that has confused me is that, will deleted files that were origionally bound to one Man Class get re-bound to a new one during backup. Does this work, even though during the backup session, the deleted files are (of course) not seen by TSM? No the files that are deleted will not

Re: 'Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed' clarrification

2003-10-10 Thread John Naylor
Gordon, Maxscratch is just a value you set high enough to prevent failures due to running out of storage. It will not use more tapes Look at your reuse delay values Try a move data against the 6 empty filling tapes The number of filling tapes in a collocated pool should bear some relationship to

Re: Point in time restore vs Archiving

2003-10-09 Thread John Naylor
Henrik, You are correct . Point in time restore will enable recovery to the same state as if you had taken a full backup on that particular day. This is the way TSM was designed to work. Using absolute mode would have significant impact both on your media use and the size of your database. John

Re: ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure.

2003-10-06 Thread John Naylor
increased commtimeout to 120s and idletimeout to 20min These values are still very low for practical use. Try commtimeoutt 3600s idletimeout 120 mins ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may

Re: Backupsets on FILE devclasses: Mobile or not?

2003-10-02 Thread John Naylor
device or tape whichever is convenient John [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/01/2003 03:59:08 PM Please respond to Allen S. Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: Backupsets on FILE devclasses: Mobile or not? So, I'm thinking of some DR scenaria

Re: Subfile backup on Netware

2003-10-02 Thread John Naylor
Not available for Netware John Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/01/2003 11:45:59 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: Subfile backup on Netware Question: Is the subfile backup feature available with the Netware clients

Re: Backuset processing question

2003-09-25 Thread John Naylor
-repl=n -su=y backupsetname client1\data: client2\\data:\ Hope this helps. Richard Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/24/2003 09:28:04 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: Backuset processing

Re: Slow Backup of Solaris Client

2003-09-18 Thread John Naylor
:00:06 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: Slow Backup of Solaris Client I have a client server a sun micro system running Solaris 5.6 with a TSM client of 5.1.1 TSM is running on a AIX 4.3.3

Re: Lotus Notes Non-TDP backups

2003-07-29 Thread John Naylor
to umderstand your data and to test that the restores are usable. John Gordon Woodward [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/29/2003 03:00:33 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: Lotus Notes Non-TDP backups We

SQL for Node Total/Used space

2003-07-23 Thread John Naylor
People, I have been playing aroung with some sql to extract for a particular platform, the total capacity /used per filespace for recently accessed clients. What I have below does this . I would also like to pull this out but summed per node instead of showing the individual filespaces and I

Re: SQL for Node Total/Used space

2003-07-23 Thread John Naylor
Excellent Thanks Paul P Baines [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/23/2003 01:17:20 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: Re: SQL for Node Total/Used space Maybe this: SELECT nodes.NODE_NAME, sum

Re: MVS select statement

2003-07-07 Thread John Naylor
Joni, Is it possible that you missed a continuation character out in your sql statement John Joni Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/07/2003 03:14:55 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: MVS select

Re: Managing shared tape drives on two servers

2003-06-13 Thread John Naylor
PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: Managing shared tape drives on two servers Hello All, We want to put two TSM servers on the same machine, within the same operating system (OS/390). These servers will need to share a very limited number of tape drives in two shared automatic

Re: Managing shared tape drives on two servers

2003-06-13 Thread John Naylor
All you need to do in TSM is use taming conventions Well you could use taming conventions because TSM can get a bit wild sometimes, but naming conventions are probably better. John ** The information in this E-Mail is

Re: TSM Performance OS/390

2003-06-12 Thread John Naylor
solution, John William White [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/12/2003 12:50:39 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: TSM Performance OS/390 Dear helpful TSMers, We are having trouble with performance

Experience with rename filespace

2003-06-10 Thread John Naylor
People. Not used rename filespace facility before yesterday , so would appreciate experience of others. Server TSM 4.2.2 (os390 2.10) Client TSM 4.2.0 WinNT Scenario is, user moved all the drives on his client within a san, which generated new drive letters. User assured me that nothing else

Re: Experience with rename filespace

2003-06-10 Thread John Naylor
anyone used the rename filespace hex option with success thanks, John Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/10/2003 12:40:30 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: Re: Experience with rename filespace

Re: Experience with rename filespace

2003-06-10 Thread John Naylor
Thanks Richard Well, that's why we get paid so much. In my dreams! John ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc.

Re: OS/390 server and USS

2003-06-03 Thread John Naylor
Thomas, My coworkers are still skeptical about the idea that the TSM server uses Unix System Services. Does anyone know for sure whether it does or not? We are at os390 2.10 TSM definitely uses unix system services. I had a pmr at TSM 4.2.2 concerning inability to restore backupsets made under

Re: Whizzy ways to backup San clients in Mainframe scenario

2003-05-31 Thread John Naylor
at. What will be worth investigating is the possibility of using the client journal engine on the new win2k servers. This will be good if the update level on the new clients is not too high. John John Naylor 05/28/2003 12:55 PM To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Whizzy

Whizzy ways to backup San clients in Mainframe scenario

2003-05-28 Thread John Naylor
Tsmers, We have one OS390 TSM server currently 4.2.2 (will upgrade to 5 something, when the mainframe goes z/OS later this year). We have two OS390 sites with an STK silos (9840 drives) and ESS disks in each site The 9840s and the ESS are writable cross site and the TSM server uses that facility

Re: TSM on Mainframe

2003-04-03 Thread John Naylor
especially. But if this is not a problem for your site then the mainframe TSM works fine John LeBlanc, Patricia [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/03/2003 07:02:23 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: TSM

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