We have solved the problem.

It turms out to be a bug in TSM

The problem was determined as a bug in TSM
which flagged the vaue ACS_TIMEOUTX=100 as invalid.
The value has been changed to 15 per TSM support
An APAR will be generated by TSM support

Thanks!

Dave Zarnoch
Nationwide Provident
zarnocd AT nationwideprovident DOT com
W 302-452-4197
C  302-462-8703



                                                                                
                                        
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hi,

is your ssi-daemon running??




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>>> zarnocd AT NATIONWIDEPROVIDENT DOT COM 07.11.2005 21:10:15 >>>
Anybody see this:

11/07/05   14:06:44  ANR8856E ACSAPI sequence(1) request(0) timed out,
elapse
                      time=00:01:01.
11/07/05   14:06:44  ANR8855E ACSAPI(acs_query_server) response with
                      unsuccessful status, status=STATUS_IPC_FAILURE.
11/07/05   14:06:44  ANR8855E ACSAPI(acs_query_server) response with
                      unsuccessful status, status=STATUS_IPC_FAILURE.

Whenever we try to do a tape operation

We have a StorageTEK SL8500

We are running TSM Ver 5.3.1.2 on AIX 5
We are running ACSLS between the TSM server and tape silo

We are also running two libraries as a result of a problem with StorageTek
drives

Thanks!

Dave Zarnoch
Nationwide Provident
zarnocd AT nationwideprovident DOT com
W 302-452-4197
C  302-462-8703