I have an AIX server with TSM 6.3.4.0. Expiration is set to run at 2am and 
seems to get so far and then hangs. But what's odd is that is also seems to 
only process some of the nodes but not all. For example, I have it running now 
and it seems to be stuck:
       1 Expiration           Processed 462 nodes out of 595 total nodes,
                               examined 4315 objects, deleting 4271 backup
                               objects, 0 archive objects, 0 DB backup volumes,
                               0 recovery plan files; 0 objects have been
                               retried and 0 errors encountered.

I looked at previous nights and it ran successfully but only processed 462 
nodes out of 595 and says it ended successfully. If I cancel the one that is 
running now, it just hangs and never cancels. The only way to get rid of the 
process is to halt the server. I have opened a problem with IBM but I thought I 
would see if any of you have seen this issue.  Any idea why it isn't processing 
all 595 nodes?