You may want to break up your directory into multiple subdirectories.
If you have more than 30,000 entries in a directory, ADSM is slowed
down considerably (and in your case even times out). Even doing a
simple ls -la in that directory will take a VERY long time to
come back to you.

Good luck!
Naomi van Roosmalen

riley AT TIMKEN DOT COM wrote:
>
> Hello,
>  We are using IBM's PDM on AIX and are attempting to backup a repository
> directory containing over 80,000 files (yes, that's right, one directory -
> no subdirectories). I have set the ADSM v2r1m9 server on MVS to have an
> IDLETIMEout of 120 minutes. The process still times out. Anybody else
> experience this and if so, how did you fix it without changing the
> IDLETIMEout to some large amount of time. The client is on AIX 4.1 , ADSM
> v2r1m6.
>
> Dennis Riley               riley AT timken DOT com
> Technical Principal        330-471-3515
> The Timken Company         Canton, OH