Some time ago I wrote:

> We are having trouble with our only V3 client for AIX 4.1

> When a scheduled backup is started the client produces
> the following output in dsmsched.log:

> Executing scheduled command now.
> 11/18/1997 12:46:02 Node Name: OCTOPUS4_C
> 11/18/1997 12:46:02 Session established with server N215_S: AIX-RS/6000
> 11/18/1997 12:46:02   Server Version 2, Release 1, Level 0.13
> 11/18/1997 12:46:02   Server date/time: 11/18/1997 12:46:03  Last access:
> 11/18/
> 1997 12:46:02

> And then there is a 60 minute silence after which the server terminates
> the session as can be seen with 'query actlog':

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I contacted IBM about this and they asked me to run dsmc with the
trace option and start a scheduled backup. I did what they asked and
guess what? The client made a perfectly good backup!!! Still gasping
for air I tried to run a scheduled backup without the trace
and it too ran without any problem.
I'm not able to reproduce the error anymore now, but before I ran the
dsmc with the trace the error occurred *every time* I tried to
run a scheduled backup. Only 30 minutes before the trace I was able to
reproduce it by starting a scheduled backup of that node.

I don't know what happened (and neither did the IBM representative),
but I'm sure running dsmc with a trace did something.

Regards,

Alexander

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Alexander Verkooijen     SARA
Alexander Verkooijen     SARA
Systems Programmer       Academic Computing
alexander AT sara DOT nl        Services Amsterdam
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