Delete Archive.

2001-06-11 Thread Brian Nick
Hello everyone, We are running TSM 3.7.4 on OS/390 2.10 and I have a RS/6000 AIX 4.3 and the TSM 3.7.2 client and I have a question on the "Delete Archive" command. I have a UNIX client and the administrator of this node has been doing some cleanup of the Archive data for this node by issuing

TSM 3.7.2 client

2001-06-08 Thread Brian Nick
Hello everyone. I have been doing some research this morning trying to locate the end of service date for the TSM 3.7.2 client for all platforms. I have been able to locate the end of service for the TSM server (3.7.4) but not for the 3.7.2 client. I would like to go to the 4.1.2.12 client versi

Re: TSM on OS/390 and SQL Question.

2001-06-06 Thread Brian Nick
Gene, You could define you SQL in a script and execute the script in batch. We do this without any issues. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions. Brian Brian L. Nick Systems Technician - Storage Solutions Phoenix Home Life Mutual Ins. 100 Bright Meadow Blvd Enfield CT. 06082-1900

NDS tree backups

2001-05-31 Thread Brian Nick
Hello everyone. We are running TSM 3.7.4 on OS/390 2.10 and are using the TSM 3.7.2 client on a Netware server. Here is our situation. Our NDS Tree backup take about 18 hours for us to complete. I am being told by our Netware support group that this is a TSM client issue because according to t

Re: TSM 4.1 on OS/390 2.10 and RMM ????

2001-05-29 Thread Brian Nick
Christo, We are running the same environment except that we are TSM 3.7.4 and we do not have any problems with this issue. We did have a problem when we attempted to scratch volumes under RMM and we applied OW47979 to correct this issue and it did. I spoke with our RMM support group and they a

BRIAN NICK is out of the office.

2001-05-15 Thread Brian Nick
I will be out of the office starting 05/15/2001 and will not return until 05/18/2001. If your message is urgent please contact Tom Wieland. Otherwise I will contact you when I return on Friday May18, 2001. Thank You

Re: tsm, os/390 and rmm

2001-05-02 Thread Brian Nick
Hi Gary, We are running TSM 3.7.4 on OS/390 2.10 with RMM and haven't had any major issues. Our tape media is Storage Teks 9840's and our biggest issue is with the Storage Tek HSC and RMM software. HSC has a setting that won't allow tapes to be used if they have a certain number of temporary err

Re: Bytes sent during backup.

2001-04-26 Thread Brian Nick
Thank Christo and David. I think that the # of files is the issue. As I was looking in the clients sched log we are looking a 1.2 million files and the majority of them are less that 1kb. If anyone has any other suggestions please let me know. Thanks again everyone. - Brian

Re: MOVE data to new copy pool

2001-04-26 Thread Brian Nick
John, If you create a new copy storage pool using the new STK device class you can issue the 'Back storage command' to backup one storage pool to another. That is how we migrated from IBM Magstar to STK 9840 devices. Brian John Bremer cc

Bytes sent during backup.

2001-04-26 Thread Brian Nick
Good morning everyone, I have a question concerning the number of bytes sent during a backup. TSM Server 3.7.4 on OS/390 2.10 TSM Client 3.7.2 on NT. The backup of this particular node is working but the number of bytes sent during the backup is close to 300mb yet I am only backing up about 50

Re: FW: TSM data on tape

2001-03-22 Thread Brian Nick
Corrie, Check the estimated capacity that is set on the 'Device Class' for the tape. This might be set at less that the actual capacity of the cartridge you are using and if I recall can impact the amount of data that TSM will write to the physical device. - Brian "Viljo

Re: Novell 5.1

2001-03-22 Thread Brian Nick
Marc, We had similar problems with Netware 5.1 I am not a Novell engineer but our Novell group was working on this problem with Tivoli and Novell support, here is what we had to do to get this configuration to work, be advised that we still have the memory leak issue. "A specific TSANDS is requ

Re: Recoverylog

2001-03-15 Thread Brian Nick
David, From the message manual: If a database backup operation does not free up enough recovery log space to reset utilization below the database backup trigger, the recovery log needs to be extended or the database backup trigger updated to a higher log full percentage. You should check thes

Re: Backup versions

2001-01-31 Thread Brian Nick
This is a case for archive! Brian Nick cc: Sent by: Subject: Backup versions "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Backup versions

2001-01-31 Thread Brian Nick
Good afternoon everyone, I have a question concerning backup versions. We have an existing policy domain that is using the standard 30 day backupretention period and I have received a request impacting several clients in the domain to keep specific files for 7 years. My first thought was to bu

Re: Netware backups with 4.1.x ... help me ... I'm drowning!!

2001-01-26 Thread Brian Nick
Peter, We also had this problem. We are running a TSM 3.7.3 server on OS/390 our Netware servers work fine as long as we stay 4.11. Here is what our NOS engineer found. " A specific TSANDS is required in order to get the Mainframe to login to a 5.1 server to perform backups. If I use other tha

TSM on OS/390 DMZ backups.

2001-01-24 Thread Brian Nick
Hello everyone. We are running TSM 3.7.3 on OS/390 2.9 and are proposing the following to backup our DMZ. 1. We have built an OS/390 LPAR separate from our sysplex. This LPAR has RMM, HSC, TSO and TCP/IP running on it and is connected to a STK Wolfcreek device using fiber connect

Excluding parts of a NDS tree B/U

2001-01-10 Thread Brian Nick
Good morning everyone, Here is our configuration. TSM 3.7.3 on OS/390 2.9, Netware 5.1 server using TSM 3.7.2 client. My questions is this, can I use the DSM.OPT file to exclude certain parts of my NDS tree backup? We would like to exclude one object from the NDS tree backup and I am unsure if I

NDS TREE backups.

2000-12-28 Thread Brian Nick
Hello everyone, We have been going back and forth for some time now with IBM/Tivoli concerning the TSM 3.7.2 client for Netware and NDS Tree backups. We are running a TSM 3.7.3 server on OS/390 2.9 and here is our issue. We are attempting to backup the NDS Tree on a Netware 5 server running th

Re: Collocation on tapeppool and copypool

2000-12-28 Thread Brian Nick
Shekhar, TSM will not do anything with the existing data in these pools. Collocation will affect the new data only. Brian Brian L. Nick Systems Technician - Storage Solutions Phoenix Home Life Mutual Ins. 100 Bright Meadow Blvd Enfield CT. 06082-1900 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: (860)

DIRMC Question

2000-12-26 Thread Brian Nick
Hello everyone. I have a question concerning *SM directories. Back in the early days of TSM we used the DIRMC option to put directories to disk rather that tape to avoid "thrashing" issues on the tape devices. We are now running TSM 3.7.3 on OS/390 and I believe that the issue of having director

BRIAN NICK is out of the office.

2000-11-27 Thread Brian Nick
I will be out of the office starting 11/28/2000 and will not return until 11/30/2000. If your message is urgent please contact Tom Wieland. Otherwise I will contact you when I return on Thursday November 30, 2000. Thank You

Failed backups

2000-11-20 Thread Brian Nick
Hello everyone. I am the TSM server administrator at our site and we are running TSM 3.7.3 server on OS/390 2.9. I have an issue with backups either 'Failed' or 'Missed' as identified by using the TSM 'Q EV' command. Here is my question. We are thinking of doing a ping of any server that recei

Re: NIC Question

2000-11-20 Thread Brian Nick
do Springs CO 80949-1313 > (719) 531-5926 > Fax: (719) 260-5991 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.storsol.com > www.storserver.com > > > -Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Brian Nick > Sent: Monday, N

Re: NIC Question

2000-11-20 Thread Brian Nick
Terry, I believe that there is a client option that can control this for you the option is TCPCLIENTADDRESS. You can only use this option if you are running in PROMPTED mode. Hope this helps. Brian Brian L. Nick Systems Technician - Storage Solutions Phoenix Home Life Mutual Ins. 100 Bright

Re: SQL restore question

2000-11-08 Thread Brian Nick
ime is going to be time spent on the client mainly in writing out the data This should at least give you a better idea where you need to look to improve the performance By the way I see you are an OS390 TSM 3.7.2 shop. Any thoughts on my unload/reload question John Brian Nick <[EMAI

Re: SQL restore question

2000-11-08 Thread Brian Nick
Larry, We are talking about the restore of the flat file from the TSM server to the SQL server. - Brian Brian L. Nick Systems Technician - Storage Solutions Phoenix Home Life Mutual Ins. 100 Bright Meadow Blvd Enfield CT. 06082-1900 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: (860)403-2281

SQL restore question

2000-11-08 Thread Brian Nick
Hello everyone, I was just contacted by one of our DBA's and I have a questions about SQL restore. We are running TSM 3.7.3 on OS/390 2.9 and TSM client version 3.7.2. Please note that we are not using TDP for SQL. As explained to me by our DBA there is a dump of the SQL data base taken every ni

TSM 4.1 UNIX

2000-11-03 Thread Brian Nick
Hello all, We are looking at installing a TSM Server on a RS/6000 and I was wondering if anyone can give me a little help. There is an option in the proposal that has been presented to us for a Network Enabler and I was wondering if this is something that we would need. We are looking at using

Re: Question

2000-10-25 Thread Brian Nick
Juan, This message indicates that the *SM server has run out of data base space. You may need to allocate more data base space. Regards, Brian Brian L. Nick System Programmer - Storage Solutions Phoenix Home Life Mutual Ins. 100 Bright Meadow Blvd Enfield CT. 06082-1900 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PR

Re: Memory consumption by SMDR.NLM backing up NDS

2000-10-25 Thread Brian Nick
Peter, I have had an open issue with both Novell and IBM concerning this topic. We only have the problem with the TSM 3.7 client and Netware 5.1. This issue, according to IBM is a Novell issue.I just received an update from IBM on this yesterday which follows. IC28444 APAR - NDS BACKUP CONSUMES

Re: session rejected

2000-10-24 Thread Brian Nick
Larry, You may need to increase your maxsessions option in the server options file. Brian Lawrence Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ATE.NY.US> cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Di

Re: Running and redirecting output from script in the OS/390 environment

2000-10-20 Thread Brian Nick
Peter, If you installed *SM on the OS/390 environment you should be able to run DSMADMC in batch. If you did not see you Systems Programmer responsible for the installation of *SM and inquire about this. If this program is installed then here is some sample JCL for you: //QUERY1 EXEC PGM=DSMAD

BRIAN NICK is out of the office.

2000-10-10 Thread Brian Nick
I will be out of the office starting 10/11/2000 and will not return until 10/12/2000. If your message is urgent please contact Tom Wieland. Otherwise I will contact you when I return on Thursday October 12, 2000. Thank You

Re: Nt client processes

2000-10-02 Thread Brian Nick
Larry, It sounds to me like you missed the installation of the TSM Central Scheduler Service. The TSM Client Acceptor and the TSM Remote Client Agent were introduced in an earlier version of ADSM 3.1 but I cannot remember which one. You need to execute the DSMCUTIL on the NT server to install th

Re: SV: Netware Schedule backup eats memory

2000-10-02 Thread Brian Nick
is problem but it doesnt.. //Niklas -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Brian Nick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 2 oktober 2000 14:51 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ämne: Re: Netware Schedule backup eats memory Niklas, What client are you running and what level of Netware? We have a

Re: Netware Schedule backup eats memory

2000-10-02 Thread Brian Nick
Niklas, What client are you running and what level of Netware? We have a problem with the TSM 3.7 client and Netware 5.1. Our problem only occurs when we are backing up the NDS tree and yes, memory is consumed. We have an open problem with IBM/Tivoli as well as Novell on this issue but I feel t

MPTHREADING

2000-09-21 Thread Brian Nick
Hello everyone, We are running ADSM V3.1.2.50 on OS/390 2.8 and I was wondering if anyone out there is using the MPthreading option and if so how is it working? We would like to boost ADSM BU/Archive performance any way that we can and I want to make sure that this option won't cause us any prob

Re: Is the TSM 3.7 client NETWARE certified???

2000-09-14 Thread Brian Nick
Hi Mark, Sorry I'm just replying but I have been out of the office. I know that there are some issues with TSM 3.7 and Netware specifically backing up the NDS tree. When backing up the NDS tree memory is used but not released until the backup completes. If you do not have enough memory on the se

Re: Database sizing question

2000-08-23 Thread Brian Nick
Peter, Just a bit of info. We are running ADSM v3.1.2.50 on OS/390 v2.8 our ADSM data base is 21GB supporting 152 clients. Total backup files 26,000,000 total archive files 4,000,000. Data base is currently at 50% utilization. Hope this helps. Brian L. Nick System Programmer - Storage Solutio

BRIAN NICK is out of the office.

2000-08-17 Thread Brian Nick
I will be out of the office starting 08/18/2000 and will not return until 08/21/2000. If your message is urgent please contact Tom Wieland. Otherwise I will contact you when I return on Monday August 21st, 2000 Thank You

TSM 3.7.2 NetWare 5.1 NDS 8

2000-08-15 Thread Brian Nick
Hello all, Is anyone running TSM 3.7.2 on a Netware 5.1 server with NDS 8? We are testing this version out right now and we notice that when a backup of the NDS tree is initiated from TSM that cache buffers are used during the backup but not release until the backup completes. On our test server

Re: Extra copy.

2000-08-04 Thread Brian Nick
Shekhar, Please take some time to go through the Administrators Reference Manual. You will find the answers to many of your questions there. Shekhar Dhotre cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: Extra copy.