Tivoli Storage Manager for NT Server Licensed Materials - Property of IBM (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1990, 2000. All rights reserved. ----------------------------- ATTENTION -------------------------------- This is a service PATCH based on certified service level 3.7.4.0. Service Level This installable patch will replace the following files bringing the level of the server up to level 3.7.4.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- Installation Instructions ------------------------- 1) From the server directory, copy the files listed below to temporary location. adsmdll.dll dsmserv.exe dsmameng.msg dsmameng.txt dsmameng.hlp 2) Execute TSM_3744.exe and unpack the files to the server location where the files listed above are located. This will install the files necessary for this patch. 3) If you need to back off this patch, simply copy the files saved away in step 1) back to the server directory. ------------------------------------------- Testing has focused on the following items. ------------------------------------------- ********************************************************************** * Fixes for high impact APARs * ********************************************************************** IC28349 WEB ADMIN SESSIONS HANG. APPEARS TO BE LOOP IN PAGE FETCH CAUSING SESSIONS TO HANG. ------------ DE28877 CLEAN ARCHDIR fails when invoked a second time; when an invalid copy group id is encountered. The CLEAN ARCHDIR utility failed when invoked a second time always on MVS and sometimes on AIX. The utility also failed when an invalid copy group id was encountered. Both problems have been fixed. ------------ IC27651 DSMSERV LOADDB LOOPS WITH 100% CPU UTILIZATION Server hangs at the end of LOADDB processing. It loads what appears to be all the database entries, and displays the following message: ANR1365I Volume /mnt/r4/backup/60541228.DMP closed (end reached) . Then the CPU utilization goes up to 100% until the process has been killed. This problem was seen on a TSM 3.7.3 server on Sun Solaris following an UNLOADDB that contained the following errors, but completed: ANR9999D sminit.c(436): SM Failed to Initialize - Time Out. ANR9999D mmsshr.c(287): Timed out waiting for session manager initialization. ------------ IC28349 WEB ADMIN SESSIONS HANG. APPEARS TO BE LOOP IN PAGE FETCH CAUSING SESSIONS TO HANG. WEB Admin session hang on TSM server. Sessions will not cancel. Show thread output at the time the WEB Admin sessions are hung show they are waiting on a condition in TbKillPrefetch. This code is waiting for a fetch to complete. It appears that the buffer prefetcher is in a loop which is keeping it from completing. ------------ IC29245 ERROR SWITCHING TO SIDE B OF OPTICAL AND WORM MEDIA This problem affects only two-sided OPTICAL or WORM media when switching to side B. When backing up or archiving to optical or WORM media and side A fills up, the backup will fail with the following errors: . ANR8462I End-of-side reached for WORM volume VOL1. ANR9999D asalloc.c(4641): Error 30 accessing volume VOL1(8), side 1. ANR1411W Access mode for volume OW1096 now set to "read-only" due to write error. . A trace of PVR MMS AS shows: . asalloc.c(4634): Side 0 of volume OW1096(8) is now full. Accessing side 1 for write. pvr.c(5706): PVR I/O agent (32) processing ACCESSSIDE request. pvrodsk.c(2596): ODskAccessSide: Requested side = 1 mms.c(750): Accessing side B, drive OPTDRV0 (/dev/rmt/1op), library LIB1. pvr.c(6148): PVR I/O agent (32) finished ACCESSSIDE request; rc=30. . This problem was witnessed on a 3.7.3.8 and 3.7.4.0 TSM server for Solaris. It may affect all TSM 3.7 servers.