This is my first post here after months of lurking.  I'd like to start by
thanking Richard Sims for his marvelous ADSM.QuickFacts.  Because of that
file, my employer thinks that I'm far smarter that I am.  Thank you!

There's one thing, though, that I haven't been able to figure out in the
TSM doco, the ADSM-L archive or even ADSM.QuickFacts.  Can someone explain
(using one syllable words) what MAXNUMMP is?

We have ongoing intermittent problems with Oracle TDP and Windows backups.
 Here's a typical error:

ORA-19511: Error received from media manager layer, error text:
   ANS0326E (RC41)   This node has exceeded its maximum number of mount
points.

When this first started happening (after we upgraded to TSM 5.3), I set
MAXNUMMP to the number of tape drives, but that turned out to be A Very
Bad Thing (though I forget why).  Now we bump up the MAXNUMMP number by
one each night that a backup fails until we get a number that works. 
Surely someone can give me a formula that will take me directly to the
right value.

Actually, I don't understand why these backups are calling for multiple
drives anyway.  They're routine Oracle log backups that happen many times
a day and run successfully 99.9% of the time.  Similarly, the Windows
backups are routine nightly backups.  I'm not trying to stream to multiple
tapes.  Why shouldn't MAXNUMMP=1 do the job?

Our environment is TSM server 5.3.3.0 running on AIX 5.3 at ML04 on a
p550.  We have 8 T10K drives in an STK SL8500 library.  The Oracle TDPs
are mostly on Sun boxes and the Windows boxes are a variety of Redmond
versions (though the errors aren't specific to any version).  We have
upgraded the TSM clients to the bleeding edge and still see these errors.

Thanks for any help and for all I've learned in this forum,
anker