On 25-Oct-01 Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: > I contacted Tivoli today regarding the PMR I have open. I don't know if this > affects all platforms but on AIX 4.3.3 with TSM 4.2.1 about every 3 days I > can count of a core dump of TSM, last night was the latest. According to
We had 2 crashes last weekend. > Tivoli they want me to change one parameter in the dsmserv.opt file, > RESOURCETIMEOUT. Default is 10, they want me to change it to 20 to work > around the problem for now. I will do that and see how it performs. They asked me (a week ago) to change it to 100. Which obviously didn't help. > They opened a APAR on it, IC31884 in case anyone is interested. > > Even if this does help I still have the annoying tape problem issue on the > 3494. Again, I don't know if this affects those running TSM on NT or WIN2K > with a 3494. On AIX I've had database backups fail because all the drives > were busy, Migration and backup tape processes fail because all the drives > were busy. Mount errors and failures, dismount failures yet the tape is > dismounted anyway, mtlib showing all the tapes that were scratch now private > and all the tapes private now scratch. DRM saying all the tapes were ejected > yet some left in with a status of mountable, yet TSM asking for me to insert > the tape. TSM reporting tapes unavailable or destroyed yet queried as > available and in read write status. > > This fix, I was told, would be out Friday or Monday.....we'll see. > > What a mess..... Indeed, what a mess..... And don't forget the hundred of thousends ANR2841W messages we get every day. Cheers, Henk.