crontab entry:
1 2 3 4 5       /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc archive -des="TSM files
`date +\%Y\%m\%d` $ENV_VAR" /home/johndoe/balh-blah.txt

five numbers in the begining of the line are as you have already set the
cron schedule. The rest is normal shell scripting - back quotes give you
the output of the command, the dollar sign gives the variable value and
double quotes for text with spaces. You have to care only for the percent
sign - cron treats the symbol specially and it must be escaped with
backslash.


Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






"Brian L. Nick" <BRIAN.NICK AT PHOENIXWM DOT COM> on 30.10.2001 15:40:58
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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Subject:        Archives on AIX and variables.

Good morning everyone.

 We are running TSM 4.1.4.0 on OS/390 2.10. My question concerns archives
and the use if the description field. We are archiving data from Several
AIX boxes all running AIX 4.3 and TSM client 4.1.3.0. and I noticed that
the archives for these nodes seems to take longer every week, upon further
investigation this is what I found.

 The archive is running weekly and is initiated from the client, the cron
job that is initiating the archive is using the same description every week
and my understanding is that this will just append each weeks archive under
that single description.

 Is there a way to use a variable or symbolic in the description field to
address this issue?  Please bear with me as I am not AIX literate and do
not know CRON.

 Any information is greatly appreciated.

 Thanks,
    Brian


Brian L. Nick
Systems Technician - Storage Solutions
The Phoenix Companies Inc.
100 Bright Meadow Blvd
Enfield CT. 06082-1900

E-MAIL:  Brian.Nick AT phoenixwm DOT com
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