At 10:28 AM -0500 4/1/03, John C Dury wrote:

When I changed MAXPROCESS=2, it kicked off 2 "Backup Storage Pool"
processes which is what I expected but on the secondary system, the 2
sessions are both asking for the same volume to be mounted so only one is
actually writing data and the other is just waiting for the tape from the
active process.

I had the same problem, and reported it to TSM support.  Their answer
was basically "That's just the way it works".

Obviously this isn't going to help get the data from my
production system to my backup system any faster.

I think it does help some.  My understanding (which could be wrong)
is that mostly you get lucky and it mounts two input tapes and two
output tapes, but occasionally you get both processes trying to read
the same input tape.
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