Check to see if the activity log contains any error messages. I
have seen these errors before when TSM is trying to mount a volume for the
DB2 backup that has been marked read-only. Also, what is your DB2 fixpack
level? Your TSM level?

At 04:43 PM 5/15/2002 +0100, you wrote:

*SMers,

Our DBAs are having a few problems backing up a DB2 database to a TSM 3590
tape pool via LANfree. There are no errors in the dsmerror.log on the
client, nor any indicated errors in the server actlog, nor any errors in the
NT Event Viewer that could be related.
The storage agent is running fine and not prodg any errors.
When our DBAs run

        db2=> backup db dbtest use TSM open 2 sessions

they get an error message in the DB2 logs:

        SQL2025N An I/O error '157' occurred on media 'TSM'

In the API messages it merely states that the transaction will be aborted:

In dsmrc.h
        #define DSM_RC_WILL_ABORT          157 /* Transaction will be
aborted       */

Which doesn't really indicate what cause the abort. Any ideas/suggestions
appreciated?

Ta,
Matt

LTSB Storage Support
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