Still waiting to hear from the support center.  Meanwhile I found an
entry in the aix backup client level 5.1.5.11 readme that sounds like a
match.  We're going to try that on one of our machines.

>>> stapleto AT BERBEE DOT COM 03/04/03 02:51PM >>>
From: Richard Sims [mailto:rbs AT BU DOT EDU]
>>From someone else
>>The server side sees error "ANR8216W Error sending data on
>socket nnn.
>>Reason 32."  The client gets "ANS1074W ***User Abort***" in the
>>dsmerror.log. ...
>
> That server message is saying that the client severed the
> connection. The client message is saying that it did so. I
> would carefully examine your server further for causes... In
> the past (4.1) this could be caused by lack of space in
> server storage pools.  Have a good look at capacities,
> Activity Log context, and dsmserv.err contents for clues.
> Sometimes the server fails to come right out and indicate the
> actual cause, so you may have to do the Sherlock routine.

*Especially* with the "User Abort" message. It was happening to one of
my customers' sites because of a lack of mount points (which had been
reset to 0).

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Mark Stapleton (mark.stapleton AT berbee DOT com)