Paul

further info
Tapes are 3590's - two of them!
Disks are 18G internal SCSI
Versions of TSM are 4.2.1.0 (server and client)
n/w between client and server is 100BaseT
Direct fibre connections between server and each tape device

Other info which may help
FTP'ed large (2G!)  files between cleint and /dev/null on
server.....>9000Kbytes/sec

setting on server viewed thru GUI
Maximum files in a client transaction  = 256 (from TSM Server gui)
Maximum files moved in a transaction = 500 (TSM server gui)
Maximum megabytes moved in a transaction = 256 (gui again)

Details of files below.....

TIA

Peter



dsm.sys on client is as follows...

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SErvername  tsmserv
SCHEDMODE POLLING
QUERYSCHEDPERIOD 1
   COMMmethod         TCPip
   TCPPort            1500
   TCPServeraddress  tsmserv
tcpnodelay no
tcpwindowsize 1024
largecommbuffers yes
txnbytelimit 2097152
nodename oradev1
errorlogretention 10,D
passwordaccess generate
schedlogname dsmsched.log
schedlogretention 10,D
compression no
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Nothing in dsm.opt
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no dsmserv.sys (at least that I can find!!!!
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Dsmserv.opt....as follows......non comment lines only included.....I have
never looked at the dsmserv files....they are as was left by the
'consultants' who installed and ran away!


   COMMmethod TCPIP
   COMMmethod SHAREDMEM
   COMMmethod HTTP
     LANGuage en_US
ENABLE3590LIBRARY YES
HTTPPORT 1580
SHMPORT 1510
TCPBUFSIZE 32
TCPNODELAY YES
TCPPORT 1500
COMMTIMEOUT 60
DISABLESCHEDS YES
IDLETIMEOUT 15
MAXSESSIONS 40
USELARGEBUFFERS YES
BUFPOOLSIZE 32768
SELFTUNEBUFPOOLSIZE YES
LOGPOOLSIZE 2048
MIRRORREAD DB NORMAL
MIRRORREAD LOG NORMAL
MIRRORWRITE DB SEQUENTIAL
MIRRORWRITE LOG SEQUENTIAL
MOVEBATCHSIZE 500
MOVESIZETHRESH 256
TXNGROUPMAX 256
EVENTSERVER YES
DEVCONFIG /usr/tivoli/tsmlog/devconfig
DEVCONFIG /usr/tivoli/tsmlogmir/devconfig2
EXPINTERVAL 0
VOLUMEHISTORY /usr/tivoli/tsmlog/volumehistory
VOLUMEHISTORY /usr/tivoli/tsmlogmir/volumehistory