Yesterday, one of my servers (all are Linux 7.1.6.3) suddenly started
spewing these message, about every 1 minute (many of them being suppressed
by the server as duplicates).  How do I figure out what is causing it and
why? More details in the message would be helpful, IBM!

06/02/2017 12:49:09  ANR1439E Allocate prohibited - transaction failed:
(SESSION: 321717, PROCESS: 1254)

Other messages near this one:
06/02/2017 12:45:42  ANR1439E Allocate prohibited - transaction failed.
(SESSION: 321717, PROCESS: 1254)
06/02/2017 12:48:55  ANR1626I The previous message (message number 1439)
was repeated 5 times.
06/02/2017 12:48:55  ANR0408I Session 331068 started for server SUN
(Linux/x86_64) (Tcp/Ip) for library sharing.  (SESSION: 1)

06/02/2017 12:48:55  ANR0409I Session 331068 ended for server SUN
(Linux/x86_64). (SESSION: 1)
06/02/2017 12:49:09  ANR1439E Allocate prohibited - transaction failed.
(SESSION: 321717, PROCESS: 1254)
06/02/2017 12:50:46  ANR1626I The previous message (message number 1439)
was repeated 2 times.
06/02/2017 12:50:53  ANR1439E Allocate prohibited - transaction failed.
(SESSION: 321717, PROCESS: 1254)

Near as I can tell, this is a tape reclaim process which brings me back to
why now?  This system uses tapes all the time with no issues and no, I
don't have any tape drive/library problems. Checked other TSM servers for
messages, especially the LM server (this is a Library Client), and nothing
in either TSM or the OS /var/log/messages.

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*Zoltan Forray*
Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator
Xymon Monitor Administrator
VMware Administrator
Virginia Commonwealth University
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