Hi Christian, there is nothing in TSM that lets you adjust this. It is a
function of the CommonStore application and how it uses the API.

Best regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 01/08/2009
09:52:57 AM:

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> Commonstore open 10 000 new sessions everyday.
>
> Christian Svensson
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> to:
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> ADSM-L
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> 01/08/2009 09:58 AM
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> Sent by:
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> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>
> Hi all *SMers,
> Happy new year everyone,
> We have TSM Client and Server 5.5.1 on Windows 2003 x64.
> On the Client side are we running Exchange Server 2007 and TSM for Mail
5.5.
> We do also run IBM CommonStore to Archive all our emails that are
> older then 1 year on TSM environment.
> Everything works great and we have already moved over 500 GB of mail
> and attachment and our Exchange Database has been reduced successfully.
>
> But now to my question, It seams like CommonStore open a new session
> for each email it want to archive. That mean over a 24 Hours period
> my session counter increase with approx 10 000 where only maximum
> 400 is BA Clients backups sessions. Each CommonStore session sends
> approx 30KB - 1MB and end successfully with no retries or resend.
> Everything works fine for us but I don't really like it's open so
> many sessions every day.
>
> My question is now. Is it possible to configure TSM to force it have
> open the session for 1 Hour so CommonStore will send all emails to
> that session number?
>
> We don't have any problems with it. Just wonder if this is possible?
>
> Best Regards
> Christian Svensson
>
> Cell: +46-70-325 1577
> E-mail: Christian.Svensson AT cristie DOT se
> Skype: cristie.christian.svensson