I suspect that the problem you are encountering here is in your
source file description of "*", particularly since the file used
in your second example, "/u01/this.file" is presumably located in
a filespace called "/u01". Without a filespace modifier in your
source file description, and probably more importantly, without a
"-subdir=yes" parameter in your "query archive" command, you are
effectively asking for files archived with that particular
description, in the current working directory. So, if you don't
issue the command from "/u01", you wont find "/u01/this.file".

The command you probably want to issue is this:

"dsmc query archive -desc="FULL ONLINE 990728" -subdir=yes
"/u01/*"

 -- Tom

Thomas A. La Porte
DreamWorks Feature Animation
tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT com

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Grigsby, Robert C wrote:

>Is there something quirky about using the description option when doing a
>dsmc query archive?
>
>I had created for the first time an archive the previous day.
>When I went to do a dsmc query archive -description="FULL ONLINE 990728"
"*"
>I get ANS1092E No files matching search criteria were found
>
>
>When I do dsmc query archive "/u01/this.file" It works.
>       Size  Archive Date - Time    File - Expires on - Description
>104,865,792  07/28/99   15:34:37    /u01/this.file 07/27/00 FULL ONLINE
>990728
>
>I am using multiple archive commands with the same description.
This ADSM
>version3 UNIX.
>
>Robert C Grigsby III