You can supply the password like so,

dsmc archive blahdeblah -pass=lahdedah

If you wish to keep the password secure but need to give people access to the 
scripts to update filesystems etc etc you can do something similar to

dsmc archive blahdeblah -pass=$(cat passwordfile)

passwordfile is a file containing one word, the password!

and make the scripts accessable to whoever needs to edit them, and the 
passwordfile accessable only to root. As ADSM runs as root everything should be 
hunky dory.

Matthew.

>>> Steven Bridge <ccaasub AT UCL.AC DOT UK> 01/05 11:24 am >>>
Using AIX 4.3.0, ADSM 3.1.2.0

I would like to perform an archive from a script ( ksh or perl ) but
I cannot see how to supply the password. Is there any way to do this
from a script ? I want to run this on the ADSM server itself - if this
makes any difference.

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 Steven Bridge     Systems Group, Information Systems, EISD
                          University College London
 email: s.bridge AT ucl.ac DOT uk                   tel: +44 171-504 2794


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