networker 8.1 parallel save streams (pss) on unix with "virtual client" ???

Hi,

I wonder whether anyone out there also ran into this, and has a workaround.

The user has partitioned UNIX boxes (IBM POWER servers with LPARs), that (according to Networker licensing rules) are covered by Virtual Edition Client (VEC) licenses. This needs a setting of the client resource: "virtual client"=yes. Otherwise these partitions/LPARs are backed up just as like any other normal clients: LAN-based, with Networker client software installed in the LPAR.

With a recent upgrade to 8.1 (SP1) we try to utilize the new feature of parallel save streams (PSS) for these UNIX systems. (The background: the data to be backed up are layed out in a non-optimum way of having a very large amount of data in one single directory, so traditional and simple ways of multiplexing are not possible. PSS could help a lot here.)

But the problem is: when we want to configure those clients for PSS (param in client resource: "parallel save streams per save set"=yes, under globals 1 of 2), we get the following error message:

"parallel save streams per save set and virtual client are not allowed together"

so we

- either use PSS, but then we have to disable the "virtual client" setting and then have to forget the VEC licensing (and allocate client connection CC licenses for those partitions/LPARs)

- or stay with the VEC licensing, but then we can not utilize the new and sought-after feature of PSS.

Any experience, idea, or workaround for this?

Thanks.

Regards,

Geza