Hi MichaelYes, the load/unload procedure is a kind of house cleaning feature.This is probably something that would result in about 100 messages in the list, but i'd suggest to do a unload/load at least once a year. Preferable, every quarter. However, as this is a time consuming procedure, normal installations, according to my experience, doesn't do this at all.Doing an unload/load procedure, can shrink your database up to half it's size(or more depending on how long you have been running). If you consider this, and compare to a harddrive, doing a seek on data placed on only half of the hardrive is much more faster than doing a seek on data placed on all of the harddrive.And, consider that TSM does this seek all day long, doing reclamation, backups of storagepools, migrations, restores and backups and so on...Yes, you can speed up your TSM installation doing a unload/load.Best RegardsDaniel Sparrman---Daniel SparrmanExist i Stockholm ABBergkällavägen 31D192 79 SOLLENTUNAVäxel: 08 - 754 98 00Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 "Anderson, Michael - HMIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>2002-03-05 08:58 ESTPlease respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: bcc: Subject: Unload DB question I have been seeing some postings about the unload/load databasecommands. I am a learn as you go tsmer, so this has peeked my interest. I am in the process of cleaning upsome of the nodes that had resided in TSM. I was wondering if the unload/load procedure is a maintenance likeprocedure that should be done every so often, or if it was a cure for a specific problem. I am running TSM 4.1.5 on aix4.3.3 with a 14 gb database at 65% used Thanks Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments,is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may containconfidentialand privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure ordistribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, pleasecontact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the originalmessage.
