Thanks for your reply.
I checked the "Interact with desktop option" - and got no error.
Now a DOS window flashes up for the pre- and postschedule command.
But still none of both commands is executed.
I modified the commands to pipe the output to a file (preschedulecmd 
"I:\ADSM\COMMANDS\WINNT\PRECMD.BAT > C:\PRE.TXT")
The file is created, but has a size of 0 bytes.

Do you think this problem will be solved by the September PTF?

Kind regards
Thomas Rupp 

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:  Piche, Dennis (D.M.) [SMTP:dpiche1 AT FORD DOT COM]
> Gesendet am:  Montag, 10. August 1998 14:43
> An:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Betreff:      Re: Returncode 1 from PRESCHEDULECMD
> 
> I have had similar problems with preschedule commands.  Sometimes the
> "Interact with desktop option" needs to be checked on the Scheduler
> Service.
> There is a problem with doing that though.  If you have set up the
> scheduler
> with the name "ADSM Central Scheduler Service" (so that you can modify
> the
> scheduler through ADSM Services (Swiss Army Knife)) and you check the
> "Interact with desktop option", you will get an error when bringing up
> ADSM
> Services.  This error will be fixed in the September PTF as per IBM.
> 
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> 
> 
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   Rupp Thomas (Illwerke)
> [SMTP:thomas.rupp AT ILLWERKE.CO DOT AT]
>         Sent:   Friday, August 07, 1998 7:01 AM
>         Subject:        Returncode 1 from PRESCHEDULECMD
> 
>         Hi everybody,
>         I'm running ADSM/VM 2 and Backup Clients for Windows NT V3.1.
>         My DSM.OPT looks like
> 
>         preschedulecmd "I:\ADSM\COMMANDS\WINNT\PRECMD.BAT"
>         postschedulecmd "I:\ADSM\COMMANDS\WINNT\POSTCMD.BAT"
> 
>         This pre and post commands end with returncode 1. No message
>         tells what's going wrong but the commands in the bat-files are
> not
>         executed.
>         Does anyone know what this returncode means or where I can
> find
>         more information?
> 
>         Thanks in advance.
> 
>         Kind regards
>         Thomas Rupp
>         Vorarlberger Illwerke AG
>         MAIL:   thomas.rupp AT illwerke.co DOT at
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