FW: TDP for MSSQL management class

2013-04-17 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
I have found solution - just put nest line into tdpsql.cfg: VSSPOLICY GEN-DB-PROD * * TSM MSSQL I am very sorry for disturbance Grigori G. Solonovitch Senior Systems Architect Ahli United Bank Kuwait www.ahliunited.com.kw Please consider the environment before printing this E-mail From:

Re: OK, who moved the TSM manuals? (again....) I have customers to support...

2013-04-17 Thread Dave Canan
Wanda, for now use the following link to access all the info centers for all the TSM releases. I will talk to a developer in the morning to see what has happened here. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Documentation%20Central/page/Tivoli%20Storage%20Ma

TDP for MSSQL management class

2013-04-17 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
TSM Server 6.3.3.100, TSM Client 6.4.0, TDP for MS SQL 6.3.1 MS SQL backups are coming to domain default management class. I have tried next include statements from dsm.smp (it was successfully used on TSM Server 5.5.6 with older version of TDP for MS SQL): INCLUDE "\...\meta\...\*" MSSQL INC

Re: SELECT statements and column widths

2013-04-17 Thread Prather, Wanda
The difference is not in char vs substr vs cast, but in filespace_name vs node_name: tsm: LFTSM>select (substr(filespace_name,1,10)) as FS1, char(node_name,10) as NN1, cast(filespace_name as char(10)) as FS3 from filespaces FS1 NN1 FS3 -

Re: SELECT statements and column widths

2013-04-17 Thread Prather, Wanda
Well that is odd - I don't know why 2n+1, but at least I get consistent results: tsm: LFTSM>select (substr(filespace_name,1,10)) as FS1, char(filespace_name,10) as FS2, cast(filespace_name as char(10)) as FS3 from filespaces FS1 FS2 FS3 ---

OK, who moved the TSM manuals? (again....) I have customers to support...

2013-04-17 Thread Prather, Wanda
I had a link to TSM infoCenter Central. Now it brings up a perfectly useless TSM Developerworks Public Wiki page. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en If you scroll down that page and click on Tivoli Storage Manager, then click the link to > Documentation Central, it l

Re: SELECT statements and column widths

2013-04-17 Thread Neil Schofield
Wanda > You can also do: > select substr(filespace_name,1,20) from filespaces > > and get only 20 chars back. Well that's interesting because it makes the problem worse! Using either CAST or SUBSTR truncate my data to N characters, but CAST gives me a column width of (N+1) for NODE_NAME and (2N+

Re: ? Best TSMv6 DB Config: 4 * 300GB or 6 * 200GB (LUN=PV=LV=FS) ?

2013-04-17 Thread Paul Zarnowski
I would say if you think you might grow it, start with 4 LUNs, not 6. I think I heard somewhere that fewer DB volumes are better and too many can be a problem. I have no experience with this. Most of our databases are on 2-3 volumes. At 02:47 PM 4/17/2013, James R Owen wrote: >Seeking your e

Re: SELECT statements and column widths

2013-04-17 Thread Prather, Wanda
You can also do: select substr(filespace_name,1,20) from filespaces and get only 20 chars back. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Neil Schofield Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:09 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-

Re: migration issues

2013-04-17 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 17 April 2013 19:09:31 you wrote: > Hi, > > the output is very interlaced and so not that easily readable. Which > command did you use to migrate the data from one pool to the other one? Either an update stgp with low and high parameter or migrate stgp triggers the same result. The st

? Best TSMv6 DB Config: 4 * 300GB or 6 * 200GB (LUN=PV=LV=FS) ?

2013-04-17 Thread James R Owen
Seeking your experienced advice or reasoned opinion: We have a TSMv5.5.7 service with very fragmented 500GB DB @ 76% utilized but only 8% reduceable. As soon as possible we will start TSMv5->v6 migration to new 1200GB DB and 200GB Log. Another TSMv6 service with 800GB DB @ ~50% utilized perfor

Re: migration issues

2013-04-17 Thread Alex Paschal
Hi, Stef. There is only a loose correlation between the devclass directory and the volume directories. Would you please post the output of: q vol /home/app/tsm/diskpool/diskpool13/diskpool/297D.BFS On 4/17/2013 2:42 AM, Stef Coene wrote: Hi, We have a strange storage pool problem. POOL4

Re: SELECT statements and column widths

2013-04-17 Thread Thomas Denier
-Neil Schofield wrote: - >The fact that only the FILESPACE_NAME column is twice as wide as it >should be makes me wonder if it's a bug? It probably has something to do with the possible occurrence of Unicode characters outside the ASCII character set in filespace names. Thomas Denier Tho

Re: Collocation anomaly report

2013-04-17 Thread Bob Levad
You might try this query: select cast(vu.stgpool_name as char(9)) as "Pool", - (select access from volumes where volume_name=vu.volume_name) as "Access", - cast(vu.volume_name as char(9)) as "Volume", - cast(count(distinct nd.collocgroup_name) as decimal(4,0)) as "Groups", - cast(count(distinct vu

TSM v5.5 / v6.1 EOS dates

2013-04-17 Thread Neil Schofield
My apologies if it's already been posted and no doubt some of you were already aware of IBM's announcement of the end of support for TSM 5.5 and 6.1 next April, but I thought it may be of interest to a few on here: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSo

Re: migration issues

2013-04-17 Thread Michael Roesch
Hi, the output is very interlaced and so not that easily readable. Which command did you use to migrate the data from one pool to the other one? Regards, Michael On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Stef Coene wrote: > Hi, > > We have a strange storage pool problem. > POOL48 is next storage pool

Re: SELECT statements and column widths

2013-04-17 Thread Neil Schofield
Allen Thanks for the suggestion. The problem I've got is that the reports are the sort of ad-hoc SQL scripts that are run by administrators and operators from the admin client. While using '-comma' does reduce the column width, it is not appropriate in this scenario. The fact that only the FILESP

Re: Collocation anomaly report

2013-04-17 Thread Colwell, William F.
Hi Grant, I used to track collocation group spill overs when my servers were version 5 and used tapes. Now I am on v6 and almost all disk, so I don't do that anymore. Anyway, I used a mysql database on my desktop system. I would dump data from the tsm servers and load it into mysql where I coul

Re: Collocation anomaly report

2013-04-17 Thread Allen S. Rout
On 04/16/2013 09:26 PM, Grant Street wrote: > I understand that getting a good backup is the most important, but > when you offer a feature that is "best efforts" with no way to > verify, why have the feature? Your conceptualization of the "feature" is inverted from the conceptualization under w

Re: Collocation anomaly report

2013-04-17 Thread Allen S. Rout
On 04/16/2013 08:15 PM, Nick Laflamme wrote: > If you absolutely need for nodes to be isolated on their own media, > why aren't they in their own individual domains which point to their > own storage pools, all of which might share a library? That'd work; You could also make it an absolute requi

Re: Addressing "log pinned" condition on V6 server

2013-04-17 Thread Allen S. Rout
On 04/16/2013 04:58 PM, Alex Paschal wrote: > Back in the day, it almost always used to be a duplex mismatch. "Get off > my lawn!" :-) That answers the description of 'transmitted relatively slowly', now, doesn't it? :) - Allen S. Rout - Throwing down with ADSM 2.1, yo yo. ;)

Re: SELECT statements and column widths

2013-04-17 Thread Allen S. Rout
On 04/16/2013 04:25 PM, Neil Schofield wrote: > I'm in the throes of an upgrade from TSM Server 5.5 to 6.3 and have had a > bit of a problem re-writing some of our custom SQL scripts. I was wondering > if anyone can point out what I'm doing wrong. > I don't know from "do wrong"; but the way I appr

TSM client data

2013-04-17 Thread Copper, Steve
Hi all, I am looking to find out what data is stored on my TSM servers for a node which is defined as a server. Specifically to find out why/what data is being stored for each server to the other one to amount to approx. 3.8TB and 4.2TB respectively which is causing me a bit of a headache as I am

SV: scripted install of TDP for Exchange 6.4

2013-04-17 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi Steve, What we are doing are installing as the documentation tell us. http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.mail.exc.doc%2Fdpc_con_ins_silent.html But then do we copy default CMD/OPT/CFG files and all the customer lines are we scripting in a batch/vbs/p

Re: New guide for optimizing Tivoli Storage Manager performance

2013-04-17 Thread Zoltan Forray
I understand the ulimit values. Back to my question on what limits/values should we be setting? I have seen various suggestions of which one said 4096 but that isn't working.. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Richard Sims wrote: > On Apr 17, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Zoltan Forray wrote: > > > Sp

Re: New guide for optimizing Tivoli Storage Manager performance

2013-04-17 Thread Richard Sims
On Apr 17, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Zoltan Forray wrote: > Speaking of tuning, I have a question about Linux kernel parameters. > > Back a while ago we started having intermittent problems running a DB > backup on one of our V6 systems. From what I posted here, a responder with > the same problem came

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] New guide for optimizing Tivoli Storage Manager performance

2013-04-17 Thread Zoltan Forray
Speaking of tuning, I have a question about Linux kernel parameters. Back a while ago we started having intermittent problems running a DB backup on one of our V6 systems. From what I posted here, a responder with the same problem came upon some documentation listing recommended kernel parms for

Re: tsm tdp vss issues exchange 2010

2013-04-17 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
I am sorry, a few last lines have been joint into one line. I will repeat scripts again: register node KWTMB1 XXX passexp=0 userid=none type=client domain=NT compression=yes archdelete=yes backdelete=yes url=http://KWTMB1.kuwait.aub.net:1581 register node KWTMB1_EXC XXX passexp=0 userid=none ty

Re: tsm tdp vss issues exchange 2010

2013-04-17 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
Hello Steve, If you mentioned client part we have done everything manually without scripts. TSM server site scripts are: register node KWTMB1 XXX passexp=0 userid=none type=client domain=NT compression=yes archdelete=yes backdelete=yes url=http://KWTMB1.kuwait.aub.net:1581 register node KWTMB1_E

Re: tsm tdp vss issues exchange 2010

2013-04-17 Thread Schaub, Steve
Grigori, Did you happen to use a scripted install for the TDP? If so, would you be willing to share? Thanks, Steve Schaub Systems Engineer II, Windows Backup/Recovery BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf

migration issues

2013-04-17 Thread Stef Coene
Hi, We have a strange storage pool problem. POOL48 is next storage pool of DISKPOOL. Both are from type FILE. The output of q stgp is not very clear, but you can see that POOL48 is next storage pool of DISKPOOL: Storage Device Estimated Pct Pct High Low Next S

Offline backup for TSM Server 6.3.3.100

2013-04-17 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
TSM Server 6.3.3.100 for AIX 7.1-01-06 (database size 80GB utilized 50 %) For all previous versions of TSM (latest 5.5.6) I was backing up in offline mode (stopped TSM Server): 1) file system with all configuration files (dsmserv.opt, volume history, device configuration, etc); 2) f