Helmut Richter asked:

> We have reproducibly the following situation:
>
> 1. A user issues the command
>      dsmc archive -subdir=yes "/a/b/c/*"
>    and gets the response that a number of files have been
>    successfully archived.
>
> 2. Immediately afterwards, the same user on the same machine issues
>    the command
>      dsmc query archive -subdir=yes "/a/b/c/*"
>    and gets the response that no files were found.
>
>  ...

I do not know, whether it helps you, but ...

You probably know, that you can make the filespace name explicit by using
braces? (--> dsmc query archive -subdir=yes "{/a/b}/c/*")

Anyway, it is still hard to explain to users having no notion of filespaces.

Regards,

Reinhard Mersch                     Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet
Universitaetsrechenzentrum, Einsteinstrasse 60, 48149 Muenster, Germany
E-Mail: mersch AT uni-muenster DOT de                   Phone: +49(251)83-2488