Back in the dark days before I saw the light of TSM :) ... there was another
product
on another platform. ( Syback on IBM VM, from SyncSort Inc. )  It has a
wonderful
restore interface, that was easy for END USERS or anyone else to do restores

with.

It would allow any user that had WRITE permission to a file to be able to
restore
it back into place.

It would allow any user that had READ permission, to restore a
file, redirected to someplace the user has WRITE permissions to.

If the user has NO permission to the file, they could not even see it was
there.

I must admit.  I got in trouble by setting it up and making it available to
my end
users (all 20,000 of them at the time), because it reduced the number of
helpdesk
tickets significantly :) just to have a file restored. (SyBack used the
TSMesque method
of keeping a database of what was backed up where, and doing the restores
for the
user, rather than the program the user ran doing the restores.  But it did
allow the users
to see how far along their restore was, if I remember right.)

An interface that allowed this, by using the system permissions would be a
great
feature. ... Just something to think about for the IBM Developers on the
list. ... JC