Scientific Computing Services staff reconfigured the setup for running full incremental backups on larger file systems and for some Oracle RMAN backups. This has improved the overall performance for TSM backups in the computing environment.
Scientific Computing Services staff is evaluating dispatch issues in the shared "bullet" cluster and is working to educate users to submit batch jobs with appropriate options. SCS has documented a set of hints for batch job submission on the SCS web site and has disseminated them through a number of distribution lists. Helping users understand how to submit jobs more efficiently will mitigate delays and long pending times.