Fred, thanks a million for the tip - I knew I must have missed something!





"Fred Johanson" <fred AT MIDWAY.UCHICAGO DOT EDU>

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        Subject:        Re: DSMSERV DUMPDB -> DEVCLASS FILE (DEVTYPE=FILE) ---- 
Possible? If so,
what are the requirements ?

Did you set the MAXCAP to a reasonable number, in your case 60Gb?  The
default capacity for the FILE devc is really low.


At 03:46 PM 9/3/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>I made a test copy of my TSM database volumes on a test server, then
tried
>running DSMSERV DUMPDB.  The test server doesn't have access to a tape
>drive, but has substantial disk storage, so I defined a DEVCLASS FILE
>DEVTYPE=FILE in 'devconfig', then ran DSMSERV DUMPDB using FILE as a
>target.   That seemed to work for a minute or two (DUMPDB allocated a
file
>on disk), but then terminated with an out-of-space error.   The target
>volume had more than enough space to hold the entire 50GB DB, but only
>about 500MB were allocated before the operation failed.
>
>Did I miss a requirement, or is this simply not possible?
>
>-rsvp, thanks
>
>Kent Monthei
>GlaxoSmithKline