JuanPablo Fernandez asks:

>  Certain customer of us handles thousands of files and gets this message
>when trying to backup a 2 Gb drive by the directory tree method:
>
> ANS2983W - Window memory limit reached.Some data may not be displayed
>
> And only part of the directory structure will be diaplayed.I dont know
>exactly how it works internally but I think that ADSM, before displaying
>directory tree, gathers all the file names in memory and then after a not
>short wait displays them on screen.
>
> My question is:
>  Is there any way that we could make ADSM make temporary files to keep
>information of all the file names instead of dumping this information to
>memory and then to the screen?
>This would probably result in a much faster response and the use of disk
>instead of memory(which might be more limited-in our case its 32Mb RAM-).
>  Does anybody know of any other way we could solve this problem?
>
>The server is ADSM/2 V1.2. and the Admin Client is ADSM/2 V2.1 level 3

This is a known problem, and is discussed in APAR IC06704.

For the time being, I can suggest some work-arounds:

   a) Use the command line interface to perform selective backups of the
      directories. If you perform selective backups on a fixed set of
      directories on a regular basis, you should check out the MACRO command.
      Remember: the command line is your friend :-)   (except for Mac and
      16-bit windows, which don't have the command line interface). By the
      way, as an added "bonus": you may find that the command line is faster
      than the GUI.

   b) Use incremental backup (command line or GUI).

   c) From the GUI try backing up by file specification, one directory at a
      time. This is the GUI equivalent of option (a) above, only more
      cumbersome.

Andy Raibeck
ADSM Level 2 Support
408-256-0130