Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

2003-02-14 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi all, I followed your discussion with much interest, as I'm suffering from huge performance problem problem too. Unfortunately I'm not under OS390, but using AIX 4.3.3 : could someone tell me if there is some some trick like this one, that should be considered, when using this OS ? Another

Delete a file

2003-02-14 Thread Nicolas Savva
Hi to all, How can i delete a file which resides on 3590 tape? Thanks in advance Nick Privileged/Confidential information may be contained in this message and may be subject to legal privilege. Access to this

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Undocumented TSM commands!!!

2003-02-14 Thread Chandrasekhar, C.R
Hi All, Can any one help me in finding complete set of undocumented TSM commands or share with me if you have it, I was searching for these commands for a long time. Thanks, C.R.Chandrasekhar. Systems Executive. Tivoli Certified Consultant(TSM). TIMKEN Engineering Research - INDIA (P) Ltd.,

Backup eventlogs NT4

2003-02-14 Thread Stefan Holzwarth
In the past i had 2 schedules for backup on NT4 and TSM V4: one for data and Registry and one for eventlogs. Since we use NT2000 and TSM V5 i was lucky since i had to use only one schedule for all. Now i want to use TSM V5 on NT4 and wonder, if there is no possibility (no pre script) to avoid

Re: LTO 3583 doesn't end audit lib

2003-02-14 Thread Jozef Zatko
Humberto, you probably checked in tapes, which heve not been labeled with label libvolume. If you use option checklabel=bar, it is possible. Try checkout this volume from library and then do label libvolume. Regards Ing. Jozef Zatko Login a.s. Dlha 2, Stupava tel.: (421) (2) 60252618

Re: Undocumented TSM commands!!!

2003-02-14 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi C.R., You could try here : http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm9809/116.html Or eventually, use the search fonction here : http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm-current.html Richard Simms web page http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts would also be very usefull, concerning any *SM problem.

auditdb: how to estimate number of records?

2003-02-14 Thread Kolling, Paul
Hi list! I have a auditdb just now running on a test-machine. I can see a lot of lines telling me how much database entries have been processed. two questions: 1) Is there a possibility to estimate how much database entries there will be finally? 2) Why is that number of database entries so much

Re: Delete a file

2003-02-14 Thread Richard Sims
How can i delete a file which resides on 3590 tape? If it was via a Backup, you don't directly delete it: TSM policies expire it. If it was an Archived file, you use the B/A client to delete the instance. I'd strongly recommend reading the TSM documentation to get more familiar with the product

Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

2003-02-14 Thread Rodney clark
Post us some details iostat vmstat and how much memory disks e.t.c. The big quick win on AIX is vmtune -p5 -P10 But I guess you a.ready know that. -Original Message- From: PAC Brion Arnaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday 14 February 2003 09:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Delete a file

2003-02-14 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
Hi, to delete any file from backups before normal expiration, we allocate a new file with same name, then bind it to a special management class with 1 0 0 0 as retention parameters(include x SPECMGT). Next backup will send this new (empty) file into this special management class, immediately

volume in volhistory as STGDELETE

2003-02-14 Thread Conko, Steven
quick question we've got some tapes in our vault that apparantly dont show up anywhere in tsm under the volume or libvolume listing. the only place i have been able to find information about them is in the volhistory table which shows they were placed into a STGDELETE state back in november

Re: volume in volhistory as STGDELETE

2003-02-14 Thread Halvorsen Geirr Gulbrand
Yes, these tapes are as good as scratch. Check them in as scratch, and reuse them. When volhistory says STGDELETE, the volume has been removed from TSM usage, and can be reused. Just make sure there isn't a later input in volhistory, where tape has been reallocated to TSM. (STGNEW). Rgds Geirr G.

TSM4.2 server and SNMP on HP-UX

2003-02-14 Thread Carsten Moldrup
Hi there, I cannot get the tivoli snmp subagent to talk with the local snmp agent on the os. Do you have any ideas ? TSM server is 4.2.2.7 on HP-UX 11.0 - SNMP was yesterday updated with the latest patch level from HP. output from dsmsnmp : by . SNMP Subagent Program for HP-UX Version 4,

Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

2003-02-14 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Richard, I totally agree with you, but if I tell you that my current situation happened due to the help from IBM support, what would you answer ? I had a rock solid system running TSM 4.2.2.1, until we had a problem with a tape library wich was unable to locate some tapes, I was then asked to

Re: Estimating size of backup sets

2003-02-14 Thread Bill Boyer
Be careful using virtual volumes for backupsets. A backupset is not a recognized type of virtual volumes and if you run the RECONCILE VOLUMES command, the virtual volume will be deleted, but not the backupset reference to it. If you can absolutely guarantee that no one will ever run the RECONCILE

Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

2003-02-14 Thread Alan Davenport
Hi, I hoped I made it clear it was pure supposition as to what the number meant. (: I'm trying to make sense of why, by reducing my region size by 768M performance increased dramatically. My daily maintenance cycle was a good 3+ hours ahead of schedule when I left for the day yesterday. I'm on

Re: Setting up Shared Libraries

2003-02-14 Thread Bill Boyer
The redbook is wrong. You don't define the drives on the library client. You define a PATH on the library manager: define path library client server name drive name on library manager SRCTYPE=SERVER DESTTYPE=DRIVE LIBRARY=library name DEVICE=device name on library client You need to make sure

Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

2003-02-14 Thread Richard Sims
Richard, I totally agree with you, but if I tell you that my current situation happened due to the help from IBM support, what would you answer ? ... I'd agree with your frustration, Arnaud, given the premium price being paid to a top vendor. Generally, though, unless a vendor specialist is one

Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

2003-02-14 Thread Rodney clark
Well you dont mention the stripe size used for the database and logs file systems. We had our database and log on a striped filesystem and we had a really bad expire perf srtipe size was 64 kb. From memory all database actions are 4kbyte. Are these ssa disk if yes do you have write cache

Re: When comes the supportTDP for Oracle 9.2.x.x

2003-02-14 Thread Neil Rasmussen
Michael, We support 9.2 with Data Protection for Oracle 2.2.1 (Data Protection for Oracle 5.1.5 on AIX 5L 64bit). -- Date:Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:26:46 +0100 From:Schmitz Garnebode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: When comes the

Re: volume in volhistory as STGDELETE

2003-02-14 Thread Richard Sims
can i safely assume there is nothing on these tapes? Steven - I initially presume so, but always check my Activity Log for the circumstances surrounding last use, just to be completely sure. Boo-boos can be expensive.Richard

Re: Mksysb directly into TSM 5.1

2003-02-14 Thread Rodney clark
It looks like the new version of sysback will be able to do this. At least thats what I read between the lines of the pre-informatie on the web. I would not waste my time with adsmpipe. -Original Message- From: Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday 14

Re: When comes the supportTDP for Oracle 9.2.x.x

2003-02-14 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Neil! I have mentioned it here before, but nobody seems to bother: TDP for Oracle 2.2 is end of support after April 15th. What next? Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Neil Rasmussen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 14,

Re: Mksysb directly into TSM 5.1

2003-02-14 Thread Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC
Clark, which version of sysback? it seems to me that last announced one is not able to interface to TSM... yours, René LAMBELET NESTEC SA GLOBE - Global Business Excellence Central Support Center Information

Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

2003-02-14 Thread John Naylor
I am resending this to the list, because I only copied it to Bill earlier, and the thread is still going so there may be some interest in it -- Forwarded by John Naylor/HAV/SSE on 02/14/2003 03:54 PM --- John Naylor 02/14/2003 09:43 AM To: Bill

Re: volume in volhistory as STGDELETE

2003-02-14 Thread Prather, Wanda
That's one of the REALLY TERRIFIC features of the TSM server - Check the tapes back in as scratch and try to use them. TSM WONT LET YOU reuse them if there is still valid data on them! -Original Message- From: Conko, Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 9:07

Re: Mksysb directly into TSM 5.1

2003-02-14 Thread Rodney clark
Well we got an email from our local dealer. Here is the info TSM for SBR version 5.5 apparantly it will support BMR on AIX plus all the other stuff. And quote FULL TSM intergration 1 Quarter 03 Contact your reseller for details. -Original Message- From: Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC

SELECTing from the CONTENTS table

2003-02-14 Thread Jackson, Jay
We're attempting to extract file name and size information from the database with SELECT. It appears the data we want is in the CONTENTS table. The SELECT command takes an excessive amount of time to return when not using the table key, VOLUME_NAME. Is it possible to add an index to a TSM

Another Expiration question

2003-02-14 Thread Michael Raine
Does anyone know the particulars on how expiration works. Normally we are run expiration with a time limit or 6 hours. When we ran it without the time limit it ran for 15 hours and never finished. Does expiration start reviewing the db from the beginning or is there some sort of flag set on

Re: Mksysb directly into TSM 5.1

2003-02-14 Thread Miles Purdy
I'd like to play the devil's advocate for just a second and ask why NIM and NFS don't work? We have an SP and I use a NFS mounted directory from my CWS (NIM sever) to perform MKSYSBs of the nodes and it works just great. If your using NIM then the MKSYSB files have to be on your NIM server

Re: Another Expiration question

2003-02-14 Thread Todd Lundstedt
I am not certain on the order in which filespaces are processed during expiration, but, from looking at the log of my expiration processing, it appears to go in node (or perhaps filespace) order, based on when they were added to TSM (certainly not alphabetical). Oldest node (or filespace) gets

select, index, and active files

2003-02-14 Thread Steve Roder
Hi All, I am posting this on behalf of my colleague. Thanks, Steve Roder, University at Buffalo HOD Service Coordinator VM Systems Programmer UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX) TSM/ADSM Administrator ([EMAIL PROTECTED] | (716)645-3564) -- Forwarded message --

Re: Another Expiration question

2003-02-14 Thread Richard Sims
Does anyone know the particulars on how expiration works. There's information in the Admin Guide, and under the EXPIre Inventory entry in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts . The process was recently discussed on ADSM-L, relative to Cancel Process vs. Cancel Expiration - also noted in

Re: When comes the supportTDP for Oracle 9.2.x.x

2003-02-14 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I have mentioned it here before, but nobody seems to bother: TDP for Oracle 2.2 is end of support after April 15th. What next? Uh...Tivoli Data Protection for Databases (Oracle) 5.1.5? Just a wild guess. :oP -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL

Re: SELECTing from the CONTENTS table

2003-02-14 Thread Richard Sims
How does the client (eg Windows) return active file information so quickly? You'll find many, many references to Select vs. client access to the TSM db in the ADSM-L archives. The gist of the matter is that Select is a virtualized convenience for us server administrators to look at the

Re: Undocumented TSM commands!!!

2003-02-14 Thread Andrew Raibeck
IBM's position on this subject is that these commands are intended for use ONLY at the direction of IBM Service or Development. Any other usage is unsupported, and therefore at your own risk. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes

expiration

2003-02-14 Thread Lee, Gary D.
Here, if expiration does not finish, next expire picks up where the last one left off. Tsm v4.2.0 solaris 2.8. Hope this helps. Gary Lee Senior Operating Systems Analyst Ball State University phone 765-285-1310

Re: SELECTing from the CONTENTS table

2003-02-14 Thread Jackson, Jay
Richard - Thanks! I had suspected as much... Jay Jackson University of Buffalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] --On Friday, February 14, 2003, 2:00 PM -0500 Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does the client (eg Windows) return active file information so quickly? You'll find many, many

Re: Undocumented TSM commands!!!

2003-02-14 Thread shekhar Dhotre
I have not used all documented commands yet :-) ,I will try to find for you .. Cheers SD Chandrasekhar, C.R [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/14/2003 05:59 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

Re: Undocumented TSM commands!!!

2003-02-14 Thread Muthyam Reddy
** High Priority ** Chandra.check these. mani [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/14/03 05:59AM Hi All, Can any one help me in finding complete set of undocumented TSM commands or share with me if you have it, I was searching for these commands for a long time. Thanks, C.R.Chandrasekhar. Systems

Someone with a problem with an LTO, AIX 5.1 conn refused.

2003-02-14 Thread Humberto Gomez Lopez
On this day someone submitted and issue about getting always connection refused with the LTO, and always timeout on the drive 1. This link could get responses to him... http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1001470aid=1

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Re: NpPeek : no data with journaling

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Bergh
I have seen this before. To correct it we stopped the journal service on the server. Paul chris rees wrote: Hi All Following on from the previous mails regarding journaling and pipes, thanks Pete, I am getting the following scenario on a win2k client, TSM client 5.1.5.2 The incremental

Re: Please watch this short movie.....

2003-02-14 Thread Shannon Bach
I read just about every TSM mail in this list as they come in. Why do I do this even though it takes time out of a busy schedule? Because I either learn or refresh my mind on some TSM subject everyday. If I haven't already experienced a problem that comes up, I can pretty much count on having

Re: Please watch this short movie.....

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2003-02-14 Thread Pearson, Dave
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Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

2003-02-14 Thread Darby, Mark
Hello, Bill. I fully concur with your statement - i.e., that As has been pointed out..., unless you know how to interpret the numbers, they're just that - a bunch of numbers.. This tool (i.e. show memu SHORT) has a very limited and specific use. It is intended for internal use only by the TSM

Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Ripke
On Friday, Feb 14, 2003, at 19:44 Australia/Sydney, PAC Brion Arnaud wrote: Hi all, I followed your discussion with much interest, as I'm suffering from huge performance problem problem too. Unfortunately I'm not under OS390, but using AIX 4.3.3 : could someone tell me if there is some some