Thanks you for confirming this and opening the PMR. I have passed the "workaround" to the user who first discovered the "issue" to see if it fixes his problem. I hope a patch comes out soon that allows us to choose this upper-limit.
Can you post the PMR number so we can follow it? On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Heinz Flemming <heinz.flemm...@kit.edu> wrote: > According to Zoltan Forray > > I have a user who after upgrading their Linux client to 8.1 now has a > > problem with backups stopping suddenly due to APAR IT13701 whose fix is > in > > the 8.1 client. > > > > Before upgrading to 8.1, the backups ran fine. > > > > I have gone back and forth with them about this being a "fix", not a > > problem but for obvious reasons, he doesn't agree since this wasn't a > > problem before upgrading to 8.1? > > > > The APAR states: > > > > IT13701: CLIENT CRASHES DURING BACKUP WHEN PROCESSING AN INVALID > DIRECTORY > > STRUCTURE > > > > but they did not have any crashes so my guess is their directory > structure > > is just over 1400 but not enough to cause a crash/memory problem. > > > > I've a similar problem with the 8.1.0.0 client on a Red Hat 8 system: > > ANS0361I DIAG: incrdrv.cpp (10473): ERROR: PrivIncrFileSpace(): > path '/home/sys/sccwww-intern/Software/TS > M/statistik/Kontakte/install-mails' contains more directory levels than > it can be processed... > > ANS1999E Incremental processing of '/home/sys/sccwww-intern' stopped. > > ANS6718E The path contains too many nested subdirectories. The maximum > number of nested directories is 1400. > > > A PMR was opened. > > IBM has proposed to set the following in the dsm.opt option file: > > TESTFLAGS threadstacksize:2048 > > In my case it has helped as a workaround. > > > > Greetings, Heinz > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie (KIT) > Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) > > Heinz Flemming > Scientific Data Management (SDM) > > 76131 Karlsruhe > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -- *Zoltan Forray* Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator Xymon Monitor Administrator VMware Administrator (in training) Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services www.ucc.vcu.edu zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html