We use Platinum Autosys for our AIX scheduling and use it for all ADSM work
(client backups and admin commands).  With version 2 of ADSM, I had a rexx
script that did the backup stgpool, then did a query actlog every few
minutes (I think it was 5 minutes) to make sure both processes (I used
maxpr=2 also) ended successfully.  When version 3 came along, I trashed all
that code and used the wait=yes option.  Only later did I find out that I
lost the ability to start multiple processes, and I'd made other
improvements to the script and didn't want to go back.  I'll probably have
to do that at some point though.

Anyway, if you want my script email me personally and I'll send it to you.

Tina Hilton
hiltont AT tce DOT com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Hohmann [SMTP:Roger_Hohmann AT WESTLB DOT DE]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 6:08 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Scheduling via Control-M
>
> I thought about requesting the actlog periodially (q actl with 15 min
> delay) and wait for the success msg, but did not implement it yet. We
> will use ctm for scheduling in future, too.
>
> Regards
> Roger
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Pemberton, Steven [SMTP:spember AT UE.COM DOT AU]
> Sent:   Wednesday, March 10, 1999 4:05 AM
> To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:        Scheduling via Control-M
>
> Guru's,
>
> We want to move all our ADSM scheduled tasks into Control-M, but we're
> unsure how to report the status of some tasks back to control-M.
>
> Our problem is that admin tasks like "backup stgpool" occur in the
> background and return immediately to Control-M, giving no indication of
> their return value.
>
> I'm aware of the WAIT=YES flag on "backup stgpool" type commands, but
> this
> seems to only spawn one process and ignores the maxproc=2 argument.
> This is
> no good as we need to use 2 drives (2 read & 2 write) to backup the
> stgpool
> in a reasonable time.
>
> Otherwise we're considering writing a nasty Perl wrapper to query the
> activity log for process id's and continue polling the log until the
> backup
> stgpool completes, and then return the return status to Control-M.
>
> Both the ADSM server and Control-M are on AIX. The ADSM server is
> version 3.
>
> Has anyone else done this before?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Steven Pemberton.
> United Energy
> Phone +61 3 9222 9076