Re: OS/390 2.10 Client upgrade

2003-12-04 Thread Talafous, John G.
Yes, this client runs under OMVS and backs up the Hierarchical File System. So, do I want the Linux390 client? John ** PLEASE NOTE: The above email address has recently changed from a previous naming standard -- if this does

OS/390 2.10 Client upgrade

2003-12-03 Thread Talafous, John G.
Our mainframe uses TSM client to backup the HFS files. It has come to my attention that the OS/390 client is TSM 4.1.2 which is out of support. I've scoured the ITSM web site and cannot find TSM Client downloads for OS/390. Am I looking in the wrong place? Where would I find the latest client code

Re: 3494 and tapes

2003-11-24 Thread Talafous, John G.
Paul, Please elaborate on what you mean by 'determine what tapes to send for temp onsite storage'. I'm a bit confused... To make sure you have enough scratch tapes in your library a simple SQL query might help: select status, last_use, count(*) from libvolumes group by last_use, status

Re: 3494 and tapes

2003-11-24 Thread Talafous, John G.
Paul, All of our scratch tapes reside in the 3494 library. I monitor the total number of scratch tapes available and react when it falls below a threshold. You mentioned your are 'sending volumes for temp onsite' and that you want to 'determine what volumes to go to overflow'. Are you limited

Re: Online DB Reorg

2003-10-18 Thread Talafous, John G.
I too will some day in the future need to reorg a TSM database. I am currently working to split our 122GB database into two TSM instances. I will be doing the same as Andy!!! Andy, Do I understand correctly that you simply pointed clients to the new server and did a full backup and some time

Re: SQL script for total traffic

2003-10-08 Thread Talafous, John G.
select sum(bytes)/1000/1000 as MB_per_day from summary where activity='BACKUP' and (current_timestamp-end_time)hours = 24 hours However, this only looks at backup traffic. You may want to look at archive traffic as well. John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken Company

Re: p650 with TSM anyone using it?

2003-10-07 Thread Talafous, John G.
How many clients do you NEED to backup? We run a p650 with: 8 1.45GHZ processors 16GB memory 6 3590-H drives 2.4TB external disk cache 4x146GB internal disks for 2 AIX instances 8x76GB internal disks for TSM DB and Logs 2 IBM 2109 32 port Fibre switches 14 fibre HBA's We recently moved to this

ITSM 5 T200race Facility Guide?

2003-09-10 Thread Talafous, John G.
I have a client that is performing a restore with terrible results. Restores about 200MB in 24 hours. I tried to perform a TRACE and get ANS1823E Invalid trace keyword INSTR_CLIENT_DETAIL. I found a hit at IBM's support site that the trace options have changed for ITSM version 5. Can anyone

Re: anyone using ATA disk systems

2003-06-09 Thread Talafous, John G.
Message- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 9:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: anyone using ATA disk systems We too are considering a mass expansion of our storage pools to implement Disk to Disk backup via TSM. The reason is to enhance recovery

Re: HELP! Expiration is Locking TSM: resent

2003-04-09 Thread Talafous, John G.
Joni, There have been some real horror stories regarding Inventory Expiration in TSM versions prior to 4.2.3. In fact, we had the same and similar problems with expiration while at TSM 4.1. Get to at least 4.2.3. But, since support for 4.2 expires April 15, you might as well go to TSM 5! Best

Re: disable sessions

2003-03-27 Thread Talafous, John G.
Hello Joni! I believe you are correct! The DISABLESCHEDS option is documented as giving the option to prevent client and administrative commands from running. If you are still uncertain, you could update your admin schedules to ACTIVE=NO and update your client schedules to a startdate in the

Re: 3466 End of Support

2003-03-24 Thread Talafous, John G.
Dale Jolliff wrote: snip I still have not seen an official upgrade to 5.x for the 3466 - we haven't been really watching anyway, as ours will be decommissioned shortly anyway. /snip Dale, What led to the decision to decommission your 3466? Will it be replaced? With what? TIA, John G.

3466 End of Support

2003-03-20 Thread Talafous, John G.
I posted a query late last year with subject 3466 End-of-Life wondering if anyone else has been informed of a perceived end of life cycle for the 3466. At that point in time, no one was aware of any announcement. Is this still the case? Is the 3466 supported after April 15, 2003? How many other

SHARE - TSM Support Certificate Track

2003-02-17 Thread Talafous, John G.
Hello ITSMers, While preparing my agenda for SHARE in Dallas next week, I notice that there is a TSM Support Certificate Track. I will be investigating this via http://www.share.org but my first thought is that I could get some quick feedback from this group. There seem to be 16 sessions in

Re: TSM v.4.2.3.2 server on AIX

2003-01-28 Thread Talafous, John G.
We installed the TSM 4.2.3.2 patches on TSM 4.2.3.0 and AIX 5.1 last Wednesday. Since then, about every 18 hours, we core dump and TSM goes down. (Makes for nasty beeps and telephone calls in the night not to mention ticked off ADMINs with applications that don't get backed up.) TSM support has

Re: 3466 End-of-Life

2002-12-17 Thread Talafous, John G.
moving your NSM/3466 ADSM or TSM licenses to ordinary RS/6000 (sorry, no details). Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Talafous, John G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16.12.2002 22:00 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 3466 End-of-Life

2002-12-17 Thread Talafous, John G.
IBM U.S. announcements: ItemDate Description 302-048 20020402 Modification: IBM Storage Machine Removal Program 102-165 20020611 IBM 3466 Model Conversions Enhance Flexibility 302-124 20020702 Modification: IBM Storage Machine Removal Program 302-216 20021105 Modification: IBM Storage

3466 End-of-Life

2002-12-16 Thread Talafous, John G.
Hey *SM'ers! It comes to my attention that 3466's (all models) not only have been withdrawn from marketing but will be withdrawn from support April 15, 2003. Have I missed an announcement? Could someone please point me to it? How many of you will be impacted by support being withdrawn for 3466's?

Re: 3466 End-of-Life

2002-12-16 Thread Talafous, John G.
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3466 End-of-Life On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 14:00, Talafous, John G. wrote: Hey *SM'ers! It comes to my attention that 3466's (all models) not only have been withdrawn from marketing but will be withdrawn from support April 15, 2003. Have I missed an announcement? Could someone

Re: How Much Data was Backed Up

2002-12-11 Thread Talafous, John G.
First suggestion is to take a good look into the dsmaccnt.log accounting file. This is a great source of information!!! john -Original Message- From: David Macisso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How Much Data was

Re: volhist file

2002-11-27 Thread Talafous, John G.
This file is updated dynamically by the Server. Anytime a volume is added for database or storage pool usage or deleted from storage pool usage, an entry is placed in the VOLHIST file. Hence, the name of the file. Old information is removed by the DELETE VOLHIST command. Try HELP DELETE VOLHIST

Re: Automating Archiving

2002-11-26 Thread Talafous, John G.
I successfully use a batch/command file scheduled via Windows Scheduled Tasks that contains: echo on rem rem * Set environment variables needed for TSM * rem * NOTE: You may need to change these variables * rem

Re: Help Urgently needed

2002-11-20 Thread Talafous, John G.
My first guess would be re-install the client code. If you downloaded it from the web, download it again. Good luck! John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data Management 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W.

Re: 3590 Tape Drives

2002-11-19 Thread Talafous, John G.
Martina, I'm surprised to hear you are having 'lots' of hardware problems with 3590 drives. Do you have a maintenance agreement and have you called support when you are experiencing problems? You should! We have a 3494 library with 6 3590-E1A drives in it. These drives are work-horses. We

Re: 3590 Tape Drives

2002-11-19 Thread Talafous, John G.
drives. What is the difference? --- Bruce Kamp Midrange Systems Analyst II Memorial Healthcare System E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: (954) 987-2020 x4597 F: (954) 985-1404 --- -Original Message- From: Talafous, John G

Re: 3590 Tape Drives

2002-11-19 Thread Talafous, John G.
? --- Bruce Kamp Midrange Systems Analyst II Memorial Healthcare System E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: (954) 987-2020 x4597 F: (954) 985-1404 --- -Original Message- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9

DataBase Position, Position, Position and AIX SSA Disk on a 346 6

2002-11-08 Thread Talafous, John G.
Greetings *SMers, There has been discussion regarding TSM performance and a common theme is DataBase layout. I would like to hear your opinions on the best layout for our database. We are TSM 4.2.1.9 on AIX 5.1, a 3466-C00 with three full drawers of SSA disks. We have a 3494 library with 3590E1A

Re: Tuning to backup Millions of files

2002-11-07 Thread Talafous, John G.
TSM 4.2.2 Client code introduced JOURNAL backup. By installing the TSM Journal service, changes to files are tracked and the backup takes place from the journal instead of reviewing each file. To install, simply start the TSM Client Backup/Archive GUI, select UTILITIES, Setup Wizard and 'Help Me

Re: TSM 4.2.3 Server available for download

2002-10-19 Thread Talafous, John G.
I pose this question because of all of the horror stories related to TSM Server 4.2.2.x code. Don't want to go there unless things get better instead of worse. jt ** This message and any attachments are intended for the

Re: Backing Up Open Files

2002-10-11 Thread Talafous, John G.
Thanks to Andy and Bill Boyer for clarifying in use versus files that change during the backup process. It helps my understanding of this. jt ** This message and any attachments are intended for the individual or entity named

Re: Backing Up Open Files

2002-10-11 Thread Talafous, John G.
The 'COPY SERIALIZATION' parameter in the 'BACKUP COPY GROUP' of the 'MANAGEMENT CLASS' in the 'POLICY SET' of the DOMAIN specifies what to do with an 'IN USE' file. Your choices are: STATIC - Try once and backup only if not in use. SHRSTATIC - Try as many as CHANGINGRETRIES parameter. Backup if

Re: file inspection times

2002-10-09 Thread Talafous, John G.
Have a look at journal based backups on the TSM client. It is new with TSM 4.2. This new service records changes to files on the client as they are being made. Then, with this information available, the journal directs the backup process and the client does not have to review every file it has

Re: Optimal VMTUNE Guidelines for a TSM Server

2002-10-01 Thread Talafous, John G.
While following this discussion, I have also looked long and hard at our AIX 5.1 (H50 with 3GB memory and 2GB page space) running TSM 4.1.2.9. I am submitting vmtune and vmstat information. Any comments on this implementation would be appreciated. Are we running O.K. Do you see any problems? Are

Re: Space reclamation runs, but tapes don't free up

2002-10-01 Thread Talafous, John G.
First thing that comes to mind is EXPIRE INVENTORY. Are you running inventory expiration regularly? John -Original Message- From: Brazner, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Space reclamation runs, but tapes don't free

Re: BareMetalRestore

2002-09-06 Thread Talafous, John G.
Mark Stapleton wrote: There are perfectly sound procedures for BMRing (is that a verb?) a Windows box. There are? Are these shared anywhere besides the recently discussed red piece/book? Any help would obviously be appreciated. John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken

ANR0529W, ANR0530W,ANR0529W,ANR0444W,ANR0484W messages in server activity log for Windows2000 backup client.

2002-08-26 Thread Talafous, John G.
Server is TSM 4.2.1.9, AIX 5.1. Client is TSM 4.2.2.0, Windows2000. Everything is running well until BOOM! This sequence of messages: 08/25/2002 21:36:53 ANR0529W Transaction failed for session 1236 for node GNWHSTG1 (WinNT) - insufficient memory. 08/25/2002 21:36:53

Re: dsmc output - WINDOWS

2002-08-21 Thread Talafous, John G.
To this date I have seen no documentation on the -outfile parameter for dsmc. However, you can redirect output in any version of window$. In a command file (or batch file for older window$ versions): set DSM_DIR=c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient set DSM_CONFIG=%DSM_DIR%\dsm.opt %DSM_DIR%\dsmc

Re: last sunday of the month

2002-08-19 Thread Talafous, John G.
We take an extra monthly backup of our exchange servers. The last Saturday of each month. We do it with this schedule: tsm: FSPHNSM1q sched server exch_monthly f=d Policy Domain Name: SERVER Schedule Name: EXCH_MONTHLY Description: Exchange

Re: Backups of a file when it hasn't changed.

2002-08-03 Thread Talafous, John G.
I too have seen this same phenomenon. Our environment is TSM 4.2.1.9 Server on AIX 5.1. Clients where I have seen multiple backups of files are on Windows NT/2000. It is puzzling because we have COPYMODE of MODIFIED in our management classes. I have various files on my Win2000 workstation that

Re: Backups of a file when it hasn't changed.

2002-08-03 Thread Talafous, John G.
- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backups of a file when it hasn't changed. I too have seen this same phenomenon. Our environment is TSM 4.2.1.9 Server on AIX 5.1. Clients where I have seen multiple backups

Re: SHARE Online TSM Requirements Process is Now Operational

2002-08-02 Thread Talafous, John G.
Paul, Where is the contact info to make this request? John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data Management 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390 Canton, Ohio USA 44706-0927 Fax

Re: recovery log filling

2002-07-26 Thread Talafous, John G.
Joe, I've noticed that no one responded to your post and since I have had some experience with recovery log filling with TSM 4.1 and normal mode, I thought I would respond. My experience is that the TSM log can fill with long running clients. In our shop, particularly OS2 and VMS clients will

Re: V4.2.2.7 Is Installed So Far So GOOD.

2002-07-26 Thread Talafous, John G.
Can you hear me now? 8-) How is it working? John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data Management 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390 Canton, Ohio USA 44706-0927 Fax :

Re: Image backup of a W2K machine

2002-07-03 Thread Talafous, John G.
I am sure the original author was inquiring about the image backup and recovery feature re-introduced in TSM 5.1. The IBM announcing number is 202-078. John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data

Re: NSM Upgrade Experience

2002-07-01 Thread Talafous, John G.
Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390 Canton, Ohio USA 44706-0927 Fax : (330)-471-4034 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timken.com -Original Message- From: Talafous, John G. Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 3:25 PM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: NSM Upgrade Experience

Re: How to check which files/path use which mgmtclass?

2002-06-25 Thread Talafous, John G.
Include D:\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\BACKUP\*.* BACKUPSQL will backup only the files with a period/dot in the name. Try a single asterisk: Include D:\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\BACKUP\* BACKUPSQL to include EVERYTHING. John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken Company

Re: Correct Include Statement for DSM.OPT?

2002-06-24 Thread Talafous, John G.
Keeping it simple, just remember that any time your include/exclude statement has white spaces (the space character) as in 'Microsoft SQL Server' you must use quotation marks around the entire object specification. Looking in the Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Using the Backup-Archive Client

Re: NSM Upgrade Experience

2002-06-20 Thread Talafous, John G.
As I understand, support for TSM 4.1 expires June 30, 2002. So if you want to be supported, you have no choice but to upgrade to TSM 4.2. We too have been trying to implement EC017 on our NSM, and have had two failed attempts at the upgrade. The upgrade to AIX 5 and TSM 4.2.1.9 requires an AIX

Re: TSM 5.1

2002-06-05 Thread Talafous, John G.
Not sure if this is appropriate or will muddy the water. But, we have a 3466-C00 (Network Storage Manager) that will be upgraded this weekend to TSM 4.2.1.x. In the process, the AIX OS will be upgraded from AIX 4.3.3 to 5.1.0.x. My submission is that perhaps you should check your AIX requirements

Re: Can't do reclamation

2002-06-05 Thread Talafous, John G.
First, you need the answers to a couple of questions. When was the last time you did an EXPIRE INVENTORY command. How many tapes are in the storage pool and what is the storage pool's value for 'Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed'? Other than that, you should be good to go! John G. Talafous

Re: DISASTER Client Restores Slow

2002-05-17 Thread Talafous, John G.
I am sure TSM will wait. And while we're on this subject, we are looking at Disaster Recovery plans and the path we must take using TSM to recover a couple hundred servers. It looks bleak. We are finding that, due to incremental forever backups, recovery times are extremely long because of tape

Re: Reclamation is not happening - HELP!

2002-05-17 Thread Talafous, John G.
Jack, As TSM ages backup and archive data, the files only get 'marked' for deletion. You must run an EXPIRE INVENTORY command to actually flip the switch from 'marked' for deletion to deleted. Then your storage pool reclamation should work. That is, unless I am missing something too!!! 8-)

Re: tsm down...please help

2002-05-16 Thread Talafous, John G.
It would seem logical to dsmfmt a small volume and add it just to get the server up. the 1024MB volume will definitely push you over the limit. Could this be what TSM server is seeing? Good Luck John Talafous -Original Message- From: chris rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday,

Re: Recover log at 5120MB and full - Cannot start TSM

2001-12-18 Thread Talafous, John G.
Thanks to all who responded and helped get our server back up and running. Now comes the task of figuring out what caused the recovery log to fill up in the first place and prevent it from happening again. Does anyone have any tips and tricks on determining what/who is using recovery log space?

Re: Recover log at 5120MB and full - Cannot start TSM

2001-12-18 Thread Talafous, John G.
. Phone: (330)-471-3390 Canton, Ohio USA 44706-0927 Fax : (330)-471-4034 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timken.com -Original Message- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 9:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recover log

Recover log at 5120MB and full - Cannot start TSM

2001-12-17 Thread Talafous, John G.
I'm down! TSM 3.7.2 (out of support) on AIX 4.3.2 and the recovery log is full. I've performed the following: dsmfmt -m -log newlogfilename 13 dsmserv extend log newlogfilename 13 The extend fails with ANR2447E EXTEND LOG: Insufficient space to extend recovery log by requested amount. I then

Re: Recover log at 5120MB and full - Cannot start TSM

2001-12-17 Thread Talafous, John G.
://www.timken.com -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E (SAIC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:05 PM To: Talafous, John G. Subject: RE: Recover log at 5120MB and full - Cannot start TSM Importance: High I'd try your dsmserv extend log newlogfilename

Remote computer with shared drive z:

2001-06-26 Thread Talafous, John G.
Greetings. We have a TSM 3.7.2 server and a TSM 4.1.2 client in a remote location that connects via a 256K connection. Consequently, we wish to only backup data files and not program files. The remote computer is located in a sales office in another state. The concept is for the mobile sales

Re: ODBC driver system error 126

2001-05-04 Thread Talafous, John G.
] http://ibm.com/redbooks Talafous, John G. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 05/03/2001 05:34:25 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: ODBC driver system error 126 I am

Re: ODBC driver system error 126 - solved

2001-05-04 Thread Talafous, John G.
Thanks to all and especially Andy Raibeck. The problem I was having turned out to be some Windows Registry settings. REGEDIT fixed my problem. Again, thanks to all... John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927

ODBC driver system error 126

2001-05-03 Thread Talafous, John G.
I am installing IP22151_12_ODBC_Driver.exe install on Windows 2000 Professional. I must be missing something. I've tried and tried and just can't seem to make it work. When trying to configure the Windows 2000 ODBC Data Source Administrator using the System DSN tab, I consistently get The setup

Re: Network Appliance

2001-05-02 Thread Talafous, John G.
We recently brought in a Network Appliance, so we are new to this. Since you can't install any software on the Network Appliance, a direct TSM backup is out of the question. Our intention is to run a TSM command schedule from another server to perform the TSM backup. The TSM command schedule

Re: Building the DRM Characteristics - How to dynamically create them

2001-05-02 Thread Talafous, John G.
Pete, I too have toyed with this concept but never really come up with anything concrete. The winmsd command will extract a lot of information to a text file. This would be nice to import into the DRM feature of TSM, but how? If we can find a way to pump the output of winmsd into DRM via pre

Re: anyone else heard this?

2001-05-01 Thread Talafous, John G.
Yes, I was told two weeks ago that there was a 9-12 week wait. If it is now 8-10 weeks, there must be some improvement. I am also told that the reason is the popularity of the product. A simple supply and demand issue. Hope the manufacturer(s) can ramp up some additional capacity quickly. John

Re: Expiration of DbBackup, Volhist and Libvolume status.

2001-04-25 Thread Talafous, John G.
that are like this - i.e., no valid data but in PRIVATE status caused by a mount failure. . -Original Message- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 4:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Expiration of DbBackup, Volhist and Libvolume status

Expiration of DbBackup, Volhist and Libvolume status.

2001-04-24 Thread Talafous, John G.
I have been keeping two weeks worth of FULL database backups. The Volhist expiration command shows nothing unusual. The command I use is 'del volhist todate=today-15 type=dbb'. However when I query the 3494 library volume I find 31 cartridges used for DBBackup. My Database is just below 40GB. Q

DEF ASSOC domain_name sched_name * - ARRGGHHH

2001-04-18 Thread Talafous, John G.
I had an administrator 'play' with the concept of running the subject command against a domain with over 1000 nodes and 5 backup schedules. So, this administrator ran this command against each schedule expecting it to function like the QUERY command. (I know, some people shouldn't be allowed

Re: DEF ASSOC domain_name sched_name * - ARRGGHHH

2001-04-18 Thread Talafous, John G.
Scott Adams/Dilbert -Original Message----- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DEF ASSOC domain_name sched_name * - ARRGGHHH I had an administrator 'play' with the concept of running the subject comm

Admin schedule to Backup DB does not start

2001-03-24 Thread Talafous, John G.
I have an Admin schedule to backup the TSM database that has missed it's schedule start window twice this week. Environment is 3466-C00, AIX 4.3.2, TSM 3.7.2 and a q schedule shows this: tsm: FSPHNSM1q sched backup_db t=a f=d Schedule Name: BACKUP_DB

Re: Admin schedule to Backup DB does not start

2001-03-24 Thread Talafous, John G.
Well what do you know?!? Another ADMIN schedule to manage storage pools was running. When it finished, the BACKUP_DB admin schedule started. But, does this mean that only one (1) admin schedule can be active at any given time? TIA, John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken

Re: Admin schedule to Backup DB does not start

2001-03-24 Thread Talafous, John G.
hedule that actually tied things up for a while... Like with the dbbackup schedule, it will start a process and then the schedule/event is complete... Dwight -Original Message----- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Admin schedule to Backup DB does not start

2001-03-24 Thread Talafous, John G.
ith the dbbackup schedule, it will start a process and then the schedule/event is complete... Dwight -----Original Message- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Admin schedule to Backup DB does not st

Re: Using client option sets with multiple active policy sets.

2001-03-20 Thread Talafous, John G.
Anne, Only one client optionset should be necessary. For example, you could create a cloptset of WINDOWS with the include/exclude statements you require for your WINDOWS clients. Notice the REG NODE and UPD NODE commands. You specify the CLOPTSET in addition to the DOMAIN. They should work to

Re: Using client option sets with multiple active policy sets.

2001-03-20 Thread Talafous, John G.
name_of_default_management_class is different. Anne Short Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems Gaithersburg, Maryland 301-240-6184 CODA/I Storage Management -Original Message- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: client notification

2001-03-15 Thread Talafous, John G.
We have insisted the the client CONTACT information contain an e-mail address for this very reason. Wanda, Would you care to share your e-mail generation routine? TIA, John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927

Re: TSM 4.1 upgrade:PERFLIB error DSMCPERF.DLL is missing

2001-03-14 Thread Talafous, John G.
APAR IC28571 deals with this issue. It looks like you've come close to hitting the nail on the head. But, I would suggest reviewing the APAR that Tivoli currently has. John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927

MediaW, Tape drive availability, Disk STGpool space and understan ding what TSM is doing....

2001-03-04 Thread Talafous, John G.
This is more a TSM internal logic question than anything else. I am seeing times that a TSM server has more tapes mounted than would be necessary for Administrative tasks like migration and backup of storage pools. When and how does this happen? The details Looking at system queries for

Re: TSM Monitoring: Crystal Reports v TEC....

2001-02-26 Thread Talafous, John G.
My queries into Mainstar revealed that they pulled their TSM monitoring and reporting product from marketing. I will be interested in what you find. John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data

Re: Excessive mount failures on 3494 ATL

2001-02-26 Thread Talafous, John G.
Bob, Have you queried your drives? Try the "q drive" command to be sure the drives show online. Then, quickly check out the 'UPD DRIVE libname drivename ONLINE=YES' command if they are not. Hope this helps, John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken Company

IBM/Tivoli Hardware Announcement 101-020 and Software Announcemen t 201-021

2001-02-23 Thread Talafous, John G.
On January 30, 2001 an announcement dealing with 3466-C00 server upgrade to 4.1 came to my desktop. You can check out the announcement at: _ 101020 IBM 3466 Network Storage Manager Software Upgrade Feature for Models C00 and C10 (7.4KB)

TDP for DB2 documentation

2001-02-21 Thread Talafous, John G.
I have looked at the Tivoli web site and searched the ADSM listserv archive but cannot seem to find any reference to the TDP for DB2 documentation. Could someone, kindly, point me in the proper direction? TIA John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken Company

Re: TDP for DB2 documentation

2001-02-21 Thread Talafous, John G.
50 phone/vmail -----Original Message- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 4:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDP for DB2 documentation I have looked at the Tivoli web site and searched the ADSM listserv archive but cannot seem to find an

FW: TSM training?

2001-02-21 Thread Talafous, John G.
Oops. I really meant to send this to the list on the outside shot we could ALL get together in Colorado. -Original Message- From: Talafous, John G. Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 11:55 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: TSM training? Kelly, Thanks for this kind of post. I

Re: 3590E

2001-02-15 Thread Talafous, John G.
tapes. I would also be curious what tapes others are using. John, what brand of tapes are you using? -Original Message- From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 2:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3590E Keep in mind

Re: 3590E

2001-02-14 Thread Talafous, John G.
Our environment is a 3466-C00, 3494 library with 3590-E1A drives. We stocked it with 600 extended length cartridges that were initialized and labeled by a media supplier. To date, we have had NO media problems. We DID have a micro-code upgrade early on when the 3590-E1A's were reporting data

dsmaccnt.log and MS-Excel - was RE: RESTORES

2001-02-14 Thread Talafous, John G.
While discussing the format of dsmaccnt.log and the fact that it can be easily imported into MS-Excel I wonder... Has anyone developed any chargeback procedures for TSM? How can I determine what it costs to provide this service using the dsmaccnt.log file and MS-Excel? I know, the biggest

Re: 3590E

2001-02-14 Thread Talafous, John G.
. Box 6927 Data Management 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390 Canton, Ohio USA 44706-0927 Fax : (330)-471-4034 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timken.com -Original Message- From: Talafous, John G. Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 5:20 PM To: 'ADSM

Re: Reading os390 smf 42 subtype 14, making a report

2001-02-13 Thread Talafous, John G.
Matt, For canned reporting programs, you may want to look at http://www.mxg.com where you will find Barry Merrill's Extended Guide to computer performance evaluation. Hence, the name MXG. If anyone has looked at SMF record type 42, Barry has. There is also an MXG-L discussion list that you can

Re: BMR Software

2001-02-13 Thread Talafous, John G.
Steve, When did you use BMR? I understand NT support is rather new (and I am interested in this enhancement as well as existing platforms). Could you be more specific about when and what problems you encountered. Could you be more specific about your "NT in an AIX environment"? Did The Kernel

Which SERVER version is best for a Win2000-server?

2001-02-07 Thread Talafous, John G.
There was recently a discussion of the best CLIENT version for Win2000-server. It turns out our NT admins are beginning to deploy Win200-server. Our TSM server is a 3466-C00/AIX 4.3.2/TSM 3.7.2. When we backup these Win2000 servers we get: ANS1943E The operation is not supported: Downlevel

DSMADMC SQL SELECT on Windows and SQLDISPLAYMODE

2001-02-03 Thread Talafous, John G.
Greetings, I run the TSM Administrative Command line interface on Windows. I use batch/command files to perform a number of functions. I could use some help in formatting the output of the SQL SELECT statement. In this case, what I am trying to do is track tape drive utilization in order to

Re: Grant authority by command instead of class?

2001-02-02 Thread Talafous, John G.
, can I do that? John -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 7:38 PM To: Talafous, John G. Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Grant authority by command instead of class? Hi John, It sounds like what you want is CLASSES

Grant authority by command instead of class?

2001-02-01 Thread Talafous, John G.
Looking at the GRANT AUTHORITY command I see no way to grant an admin partial authority. For example, I would like to establish an admin that has only the authority to manipulate NODE and ASSOCIATION attributes in the POLICY class. In other words, this admin would be able to define nodes, update

3466-C00 with 3494 attached environment - DOCS?

2001-01-31 Thread Talafous, John G.
Let's say, for example, that a 3590 tape drive failed. The IBM CE enters and wants the TSM Admin to vary the device offline so he can work with it. Where would something like this be documented? Not TSM, nor 3590, nor 3494, nor AIX. Are there Redbooks? Environment is TSM 3.7.2, 3466 (AIX 4.3.2),

TDP for R3 - was TDP for Oracle and passwordaccess generate

2001-01-24 Thread Talafous, John G.
We are having a heck of a time with passwordaccess generate and our TDP for R3 environment. Out environment dictates that passwords expire every X days. And, every X days, our TDP for R3 nodes get locked. Is this because we needed to run the aobpswd utility as mentioned in the TDP for Oracle

901015 Software Withdrawal and Service Discontinuance :Tivoli Dat a Protection for Workgroups, V1.1

2001-01-24 Thread Talafous, John G.
And I was just about to start studying TDP for Workgroups to see what it might do for me. Is this simply and old version that is being retired, or is Tivoli getting out of this business? John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support

Tivoli Decision Support for Storage Management Analysis

2001-01-24 Thread Talafous, John G.
Can anyone attest to the value of the information provided by TDS4SMA? Also, the Tivoli web site indicates that TDS4SMA is "Planned to be integrated as part of the Tivoli Storage Manager Version 4.1 product". Is it? John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken Company

901015 Software Withdrawal and Service Discontinuance :Tivoli Dat a Protection for Workgroups, V1.1

2001-01-23 Thread Talafous, John G.
And I was just about to start studying TDP for Workgroups to see what it might do for me. Is this simply and old version that is being retired, or is Tivoli getting out of this business? Here is a link to the announcement: http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/usaletsparms=H_901-015 IBM U.S.

Re: Serios Situation - Related to Recovery Log

2001-01-17 Thread Talafous, John G.
Make sure your recovery log has been correctly allocated on the volume. Also, you need and entry in the dsmserv.dks configuration file. This file will differ depending on your environment. Good Luck! John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken CompanyGlobal

Re: APAR IC28571 : NT EVENT VIEW REPORTS PERFLIB ERRORS AGAINST DSM CPERF.DLL - TSM 4.1.1

2001-01-17 Thread Talafous, John G.
Many thanks to Andy Raibeck for his timely and accurate response. There must be many flavors of this scenario depending on previously installed and uninstalled versions of ADSM and TSM. Unfortunately, I cannot trace the history of this activity on any particular machine. What we found on one of

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