Herfried,

thank you very much for the tip.
Now it works like a champ!

Greetings from Austria!
Thomas

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:  Herfried Abel [SMTP:HA7 AT DAIMLERCHRYSLER DOT COM]
> Gesendet am:  Mittwoch, 24. November 1999 09:07
> An:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Betreff:      Re: AW: Delete old backups for Oracle 8
> 
> Thomas,
> we do it that way :
> when allocating a channel in the RMAN we supply the filespace e.g:
> 
> "allocate channel for delete type 'sbt_tape' parms
> 'ENV=(DSMI_ORC_CONFIG=/usr/lpp/adsm/bin/dsm.opt,
> DSMO_AVG_SIZE=1024, DSMO_NODE=DBNODE, DSMO_PSWDPATH=/usr/lpp/adsm/bin,
> DSMO_AVG_SIZE=5,
> DSMO_FS=adsmdb)'
> 
> look at DSMO_FS
> 
> -herfried
>