I'd suggest making you db a series of small dbvols not one great big
huge one.
4 x 30G vols for instance. 


Regards,

Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Jones, Eric J
Sent: 07 April 2005 17:18
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Creating DB file on new server

Good Morning.
I have a new server running TSM 5.2.2 server with AIX 5.2.
I went to create the data base file which I'm planning 130GB.
The logical volume was created for 130GB and was called /dbaa1vpth0 and
large files are turned on.
The command I initially issued was
dsmfmt -m -db /dbaa1vpth0/db 130000
It returned an error that said that the file could not exceed 68234123
or something close to that.
What finally worked as I went down in size to 65001 dsmfmt -m -db
/dbaa1vpth0/db 65001 which is 1/2 of the size I was expecting.
I've read the dsmfmt command(Administrator's reference) and I did not
see a limit.
Is 65001 a limit or when I do the dsmserv command does it double in size
for some reason?
I'm sure it's an obvious question but I'm a little lost of this one.


Have a Great Day,
Eric Jones
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