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Re: How many volumes can I delete at once?

2003-10-07 09:54:53
Subject: Re: How many volumes can I delete at once?
From: Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 09:53:08 -0400
>I have to delete some volumes from a copy storage pool.  I have attempted to
>delete as many as four volumes at once (del vol xxxx discarddata=yes) and had
>deadlock problems.  How many volumes should I expect to be able to process at
>once?  TSM 5.1.5 on OS/390.

There is no numerical answer...  It's a classical database adjacency problem.
The more disparate the data, the less likely conflicts in updating database
records. I would not do more than two at a time.

  Richard Sims, BU