There is no option in the Admin client to suppress error messages. Some
alternatives:

1) Before running your current SELECT command, run a SELECT command with
the same criteria, but returning only a count of the number of records,
i.e.:

   dsmadmc -id=myadmin -pa=xxxxx -dataonly=yes select count(*) from
blah-blah-blah

If the count is 0 then you are done. Otherwise continue with your regular
script.

2) In your script, test the return code from dsmadmc. If it is nonzero,
assume there was some failure and that the output is most likely no good
and there is no point in processing the output. Otherwise continue running
the script.

3) modify your script to detect the ANR* and ANS* messages and ignore
them.

4) If using Windows is an option, consider using the ODBC driver with an
ODBC application (i.e. Lotus Approach, Microsoft Access, your own
homegrown tool, etc.) instead of trying to parse dsmadmc output.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

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The command line is your friend.
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Robert Ouzen <rouzen AT UNIV.HAIFA.AC DOT IL>
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Hi to all

Did is a way to get nothing in the output from a script if is no data , I
mean I used the options:  -dataonly=yes and -itemcommit and it work fine
but
when my select as no output at all I got the line:

     ANR2034E SELECT: No match found using this criteria.
     ANS8001I Return code 11.

I need to use a clean output to run on it statistics .............

T.I.A  Regards

Robert Ouzen
E-mail: rouzen AT univ.haifa.ac DOT il <mailto:rouzen AT univ.haifa.ac DOT il>