Hi,



Every day I have to restart DB2 (sometimes multiple times) due to backups
stop working. The DB2 database is doing log file and normal backups to TSM
and the backups stop working after the following couple of errors:



31.01.2017 10:48:04 instrStart: Unable to get write file lock or report file
handler.

31.01.2017 10:48:16 ANS1035S Options file 'D:\TSM\client\dsm.opt' could not
be found, or it cannot be read.

31.01.2017 10:48:31 instrStop: Unable to get write file lock or report file
handler.



My idea is this has nothing to do with the dsm.opt itself but with the
dsmopt.lock file and the handler stops working. This leads me to believe it
has something to do with:



http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21646969



but ofc its al directed to Unix as although IBM supports their products on
Windows their support and documentation are mostly based on AIX
installations.



Also note, this symptom should be fixed in TSM V7.1.4 but this environment
is running BAclient V7.1.6.2 on Windows 2008R2 64b. Support ticket with IBM
has been opened but sofar they are not really helpfull.



I wonder if someone is running into the same issues and if its only on
windows or also still on AIX (as I have multiple AIX servers running DB2
without the option to restart them everytime the backup stops working which
are about to be upgraded to this TSM client version).



Kind regards,



Karel