Hi 

if anyone can offer any advice or assistance iin the following regard.

we are running tsm on os/390
server level 4.2.2.5

db size approx = 75 gig

recently we have had a problem where the pages of sessions accumulate till the 
max amount of allowable sessions is reached. ie 500
the sessions that are queueing are mostly not backup/archive sessions but for 
the most part just polling sessions that usually happen so fast and completely 
in the background that you do not even see them. now however they sit endlessly 
in a start state or and end state resulting in a slow response for the entire 
server. backup and restore times are greatly increased and simple queries (eg q 
stg or q filespace of a node) take really really long before giving any output. 
they just seem to hang for a few minutes at a time.

we have already tried to shuffle around db disk volumes to dif spindles because 
of high hit rates and reversed a buffer pool size change that we did a couple 
of weeks back to no avail.

any ideas???????

*  Nazeer Parak
                 Storage Specialist
  800-5273
          084-447-7771
     * Nazeer.Parak AT Arivia.co DOT za