Richard - Thanks!  I had suspected as much...

Jay Jackson
University of Buffalo
tksjwj AT buffalo DOT edu


--On Friday, February 14, 2003, 2:00 PM -0500 Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
wrote:

>> How does the client (eg Windows) return active file information so
>> quickly?
>
> You'll find many, many references to Select vs. client access to the
> TSM db in the ADSM-L archives.  The gist of the matter is that
> Select is a virtualized convenience for us server administrators to
> look at the information in the database, whereas the client "knows
> the inside scoop" and can more directly go after the data.  Select
> is much more generalized, and entails more overhead.
>
>   Richard Sims, BU