Hi Alejandro,

the TSM Manual "Using the Application Program Interface, Version 5 Release
1"
says in chapter 3 under "Receiving Data from a Server" (p. 42), that you
can restore
or retrieve only those objects that were backed up or archived using API
calls.

So interoperability between B/A (GUI) Client and API might not work in your
case.

Christiane Klauk




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Hi, happy new year to all!!!

Has anyone been able to query the client backup files from a custom program
using the TSM API?
I tried using the dsmapi.exe as a starting point to query backup objects
(made with the GUI/CLI clients) from the TSM API but I'm constantly getting
"format unknown" for files I can see using the GUI:

*** dsmGetNextQObj failed:
ANS1245E (RC122)  Format unknown

It looks like if the API would reject passing info to the DAPISMP.exe app
which was not sent to TSM using the API (I'm able to backup a file using
dapismp.exe and then I get the right results)

Can someone tell me how to bypass this limitation?

Server and clients are all Windows based.
My final objective is to scan the metadata in the server in order to gather
some statistics on versions, sizes, dates, etc

Thanks in advance
Regards
Alex