-----Sam Sheppard wrote: -----

>I noticed several new messages have started appearing in the stats at
>the end of scheduled backups (we're at TSM 6.1.3.4).  One of these is
>as follows:
>
>ANE4976I (Session: 705601, Node: VMCMSATTY)  Total data reduction
> ratio:           98.86%(SESSION: 705601)
>
>It seems several of these new ANE49xx messages are not documented and
>there is an informational apar to this effect on the support site
>(IC68698), however nowhere does it say what this statistic might
>mean.  Anyone care to hazard a guess.  We are not using compression
>or dedup.

The first possibility that occurs to me is that the amount of data
actually backed up is 1.14% (100%-98.86%) of the amount of data
that a full backup would have needed. Do your disk usage figures
and the byte count in the ANE4961I message fit that theory?