Well, If you are not having issues with the XBSA library and only with
management classes, use only a management class with an archive copy group.
The backups will be of the type "archive". Set you retention up when
building the copy group for the archive. There is no point in making backup
type copy groups. The stuff will expire per your retention value in the
archive copy group. I need to keep my database backups for a "period" for
two of my 3 Informix databases... here is my copy group:

tsm: AFCOPS2>q co satdomain active 32day type=a f=d

            Policy Domain Name: SATDOMAIN
               Policy Set Name: ACTIVE
               Mgmt Class Name: 32DAY
               Copy Group Name: STANDARD
               Copy Group Type: Archive
                Retain Version: 32
            Copy Serialization: Shared Static
                Copy Frequency: CMD
                     Copy Mode: Absolute
              Copy Destination: ARDPOOL1
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Hi George

We are currently using the X/OPEN api to backup the Informix database.
We are also using the onbar utility in conjunction with the X/OPEN api.
My question is how to set up management classes for the backups and also
the
logs and how to expire these backups and logs.

Thks
Sean