Trick if performing an audit of your diskstorage,
ie, if needing to clear references to volumes that don't exist anymore.
Make sure all of your data is migrated to tape.
Note the placement of all your disk storage.
Create a macro that will delete all disk storage volumes.
        (if possible, troubled volumes might not delete...)
Create a macro that will define all your disk storage volumes.
Run the macro to delete all the disk storage volumes.
NOW AUDIT YOUR DATA BASE FOR DISKSTORAGE
Run the macro to define back all your disk storage volumes.
Back to normal...

I had some hung references in the past that wouldn't let me delete a disk
volume that didn't exist any more.
Even with all my disk storage empty, an audit of the diskstorage ran about
2+ hours...
I did the above trick and it ran in just a very few minutes (or was it
seconds)

FYI...

Dwight


-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Deschner [mailto:rogerd AT UIC DOT EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 12:34 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Help with corrupted data --> "DSMSERV AUDITDB INVENTORY
FIX=YES"


I last did a full AUDITDB several years ago, and it took a week. Now it
would be an impossibility, as it is for you too. Call support and ask
about auditing just a part of the database at a time. For instance, I
once audited just the part that covered the online disk storage pools
with the undocumented option:

  dsmserv auditdb diskstorage fix=yes ...(other options)

This took less than an hour, and fixed my database corruption. (Your
Mileage *WILL* Vary!!!)

There may be other special options that let you break up the audit
process further into manageable chucks; call Tivoli support.

Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT edu