Hello

As far as my experience , when you run a script in the presched option, ADSM
get RC for running the script, not the result of the commands. If you will run
the SHUTDOWN command  directly 'PRESCHED SHUTDOWN ....' ADSM will wait for the
shutdown to finish.

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Joe Schilling wrote:

> We ran into the same problem.  Unfortunately the ADSM scheduler will not
> wait for the Pre Schedule command to finish before starting the backup.
> What we do is in cron shut Oracle down 15 minutes before we start the ADSM
> Schedule.  We still put the Post Schedule command in to start Oracle
> after the backups are complete.
>
> rigna1 AT JCPENNEY DOT COM on 12/03/98 05:00:34 PM
>
> Please respond to ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc:    (bcc: Joe Schilling/BOMC/TIME_INC/US)
> Subject:  PreSchedule Problem
>
> Hi,
> Will someone tell me what I'm doing wrong. I am trying to set up a backup
> where I shuts the Oracle database
> first. After the DB shuts down, I then start the backup; then starts the
> database again when backup is done.
> I included the following entries in the client dsm.sys
>    PRESCHEDULECMD   /usr/local/bin/StopApps.sh
>    POSTSCHEDULECMD /usr/local/bin/StartApps.sh
> The StopApps.sh and StartApps.sh are scripts that stops and starts the
> database.
> When I starts the backup I notice that ADSM executes the scripts but ADSM
> started the backup while the StopApps.sh
> is shutting down the Oracle.I tried to put a sleep 300 command in the
> script but to no avail. My client is version 3.1.0.0
> and the server is 3.1.1.5. My platform is RS6000/AIX 4.2.1.
> Regards,
> Ron