FWIW, the README.SRV file for AIX says:

When the 5.3 server starts existing FILE volumes in FILLING state are
marked  as full.

In 5.2.x and prior servers, the server accepted a PATH definition for a
local  FILE Library and FILE drives, although it was not used in any way.
Such definitions are not accepted by a 5.3 server and are rejected.  This
could be problematic if these definitions are contained in a devconfig
file, and must
be removed manually.




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Hi Jurgen:

Can you provide any details on the bug with FILE volumes?  Is there an
open APAR on this?

Thanks,

Tim Rushforth
City of Winnipeg

-----Original Message-----
From: Jurjen Oskam [mailto:jurjen-tsm AT STUPENDOUS DOT ORG]
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 8:58 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Anyone installed 5.3 yet?

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:15:47AM -0700, Paul Fielding wrote:

> I'm interested to know if anyone has tried installing 5.3 yet and what
> they've found...

Yes, we're on AIX 5.2 and TSM 5.3 here. Very smooth upgrade (from
5.2.3),
runs OK. We did hit a bug with FILE volumes, and cannot reliably use
FILE
volumes. Fortunately, it was quite easily worked around by temporarily
using DISK volumes.

Not running the Administration Center here: command line only.

Nice new features are Collocation Groups, the (optional) elimination of
the need to issue REPLY to commands and the Offsite Reclamation limit.
Nice features on the client side: the ability for the TDPs to "plug-in"
into the Web-interface of the standard client, so you can do TDP for
Domino-restore from the regular Web-client.


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