Tivoli is claiming that the Raw Volume Dump and Restore feature will
provide 6 times faster backup and 5 times faster restore.
There is a overview of the new features on the Tivoli Web site,
in Both Power Point and html formats. (Most of the new features
are presented in the second half of the presentation)

Go to: http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage_mgr/

On Friday, October 08, 1999 10:49 PM, Julie Phinney [SMTP:jphinney AT HUMANA 
DOT COM]
wrote:
> My manager has heard 8:1 performance improvements are reported with TSM 3.7
> over ADSM    (sorry, I must abbreviate).
> I assume this is due to a combination of improvements.. including Adaptive
> Differencing technology.
>
> Does anyone know,  does the bulk of performance improvements happen in the
> server?
> Must I upgrade both client and server  to see the improvement?
> I'm sure the powers that be, here,  will want to see this performance
> improvement as quickly  as possible  : )
> I want to tell them what to expect...  some improvement with just a server
> upgrade    or what.
>
> Is anyone using the TSM 3.7  S/390 Edition,  having replaced your ADSM/MVS
> server?
> Is there an upgrade fee?    Is the code available to download?
> Any trouble with it?
>
> Thanks  once again, very much.
> Julie