Do Large Corporations Need Tape?
I am dealing with a situation where I have to gone from a tapeless TSM environment to the standard TSM tape model and I have to wonder why you would use tape when you have multiple data centers? If you...
View ArticleUpgrading A TSM 5.5 Library Manager to 6.x
I just helped (sort of) perform an upgrade of two TSM library managers from TSM 5.5 to TSM 6.2. First off I'd like to say that the process involved was really not worth the time it took. Our library...
View ArticleTivoli Storage Manager Next Administrative Interface / Beta Programme
It'll be called: Operations Center (a bit sounds like admincenter ;-) I hope they didn't only change the design!
View ArticleData Domain vs. Protectier
Where I am currently employed we are looking to replace our 3592 based library with a deduplication solution. Currently the higher ups are leaning towards IBM ProtecTIER without having thoroughly...
View ArticleCleaning tape cycles CLI
#IBM 3494#mtlib -l -q L | grep 3592#IBM 3584, A.K.A. IBM TS3500#/opt/java6/bin/java -jar TS3500CLI.jar -a -viewCleaningCartridges -u -p | awk -F',' '{total=total+$9;}END{print total}'Insert it into...
View ArticleTSM 7
I recently attended a technical briefing from IBM of various storage related topics which included TSM. While they did have an NDA I can say that some of the items we discussed showed promise. I'll be...
View ArticleIBM P7 Strange Behaviour
We have a P7 frame that has 4 LPARs that are used as TSM storage agents from which snapshots of our SAP DB's are mounted for backup. They have always had great performance until one LPAR had a bad HBA...
View ArticleTSM Command Processing Tip
I am constantly having to run a large list of commands and sometimes just don't want to deal with running them through a shell script. So whats the best way to run a list of commands without having to...
View ArticleArchive Report
Where I work we have a process that bi-monthly generates a mksysb then archives it to TSM. Recently an attempt to use an archived mksysb found that sometimes the mksysb process does not create a valid...
View ArticleFull TSMExplorer for TSM version 5 is free now
Got this info from Dmitry Dukhov - creator of TSMExplorerProcedure of required registration for getting free license and TSMExplorer for TSM version 5 are available on...
View ArticleNew TSM Admin In The House!
Just thought I should let everyone know that my wife and I had a son December 3rd. The holidays and lead up to his being born have kept me busy. My son makes 8 kids total and I'm a very busy man. So...
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Poor Performance
Currently I work in an environment where we have a specific TSM instance for a large SAP DB (99TB currently). We just upgraded the drives in the tape library (yes we use tape! I know...I know....) from...
View ArticleIBM Tivoli Storage Manager is NOT affected by the OpenSSL Heartbleed...
I was asked to check into the Heartbleed bug and whether TSM was vulnerable. A quick google of TSM Heartbleed produced the following link which states:IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is NOT affected by the...
View ArticleSony Develops 185TB Tape
Sony announced they have developed a tape medium and write process that can support 185TB per tape. Whoa, That's huge! Now if we can see it hit the market before some other storage strategy catchphrase...
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Poor Performance Followup
As a follow-up to the previous poor performance post I thought I'd post what the outcome was. As it turns out we checked performance tuning settings in TSM and AIX and no performance increase was seen....
View ArticleTKLM and TSM Encryption
When it comes to encryption and TSM you find varying responses from admins. Some use the TSM server as the key manager, others implement a library based key manager, and others use a third party...
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TKLM - Things To Know Part 1
DB2 Password and TKLM Data Source Out of SyncOn systems such as Linux or AIX, you might need to change the password for the DB2® Administrator user ID. The login password for the DB2 Administrator user...
View ArticleTKLM - Things To Know Part 2
Resolving TKLM Memory IssueTKLM has a known issue with the Java memory heap size. This memory issue results in TKLM becoming slow to respond or stops issuing keys. You can search for an Out Of Memory...
View ArticleTKLM - Things To Know Part 3
Identifying and Releasing Empty Volumes Back To ScratchDue to the TKLM server being unable to issue keys TSM will assign tapes to a storage pool and then fail to write to the tape. To release the tapes...
View ArticleSQL: CASE and CONCAT
SO I was trying to build a better report for TSM Client levels replacing the crappy windows OS level with the correct version using CASE but was worried that case with two fields being concatenated...
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