>> On Thu, 6 May 2010 11:11:34 -0400, "Tyree, David" <david.tyree AT SGMC DOT 
>> ORG> said:

> I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up
> to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have
> plenty of scratch tapes and mount points.


Try running one at 99% and _no_ time limit, and expect it to run for
days.

There's a huge amount of bookkeeping work TSM does at the outset.  If
you've gotten yourself stuck somewhere, and lots of time has passed,
you may have a large backlog.  In that case, trying little nibbles is
the only way to go.

You could also approach this from the

-OFFSITERECLAIMLimit--=--number_of_volumes-

side, limiting it to just a few at a time.


- Allen S. Rout