Vint,

        A quickie way would be to let the pre-schedule exit start the Oracle
exports instead of the Autosys.  Of course, this presumes you are using *SM
scheduling.

        Another would be to let the Oracle exports scripts do a call to *SM
for selective or incremental backups.

        Gary L. Ison
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