I went back to square one on this and reviewed everything that was running
and scheduled. I had my normal daily reporting scheduled at 7am through CRON
and a del volhist scheduled through TSM. Turns out the problem of the
hanging sessions was actually the del_volhist which is going across the TSM
servers to delete the DB backups.

A suggestion from IBM support was to run a reconcile volumes and see if that
helped. It cleared up a lot of virtual volumes and amy problem appears to
have gone away. I have added the reconcile volumes as a scheduled task. I
will watch it through the weekend to see if there are any problems.

Duane Ochs
Systems Administration
Quad/Graphics Inc.
414.566.2375

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Ochs, Duane
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 1:32 PM
> To:   'ADSM-L@VM. MARIST. EDU (E-mail)'
> Subject:      RE: tsmservers: q actlog ...
>
> Here is the response from IBM. TSM commands from CRON are not supported.
> Sucks for me, but it has worked for over 2 years... That is until I
> upgraded to 5.1.6.2 .
>
> Normally IBM TSM support does not support TSM commands run from cron,
> however it is suggested that the following tsm envirnment variables be
> used
> in a script that runs tsm commands from cron:
>
> export DSM_DIR=<PATH_TO_dsm.sys>
> export DSM_LOG=<PATH_TO_DSM_LOG>
> export DSM_CONFIG=<PATH_TO_dsm.opt>
>
> If the above don't clear the "sessions stay open" problem that you are
> seeing, you will have to define a TSM schedule to gather the information
> you need to gather everyday.
>
>
>        -----Original Message-----
>       From:   Ochs, Duane
>       Sent:   Wednesday, April 09, 2003 9:32 AM
>       To:     ADSM-L@VM. MARIST. EDU (E-mail)
>       Subject:        tsmservers: q actlog ...
>
>       Since upgrading to 5.1.6.2 server on AIX I have seen that the
> sessions that are created during this process do not release at times. The
> only way I have been able to get rid of them is by stopping the TSM server
> software and restarting.
>
>       I use a cron job to do the following:
>       dsmadmc -id= -pass= -commadelimited -outfile=/usr/actlog_q.txt
> -display=table 'tsmservers: q actlog begindate=today-1 begintime=07:00
> enddate=today endtime=07:00 search=ane49??i'
>
>       dsmadmc -id= -pass= -outfile=/usr/stats.rpt 'tsmservers: q event * *
> begindate=today-1 begintime=07:00 enddate=today endtime=07:00'
>
>       I then parse the contents to create reports on number of files,data
> sent, etc...
>
>       Has anyone else seen this behaviour or come across a solution for it
> ?
>
>        Duane Ochs
>       Systems Administration
>       Quad/Graphics Inc.
>       414.566.2375
>