1. Been a long time, I can't give you step by step, but if you find the OS/2
system folder
There should be templates that you can use.

2. You can use the OS/2 Chron utility to schedule tasks It should be in the
c:\chron directory.
(At least thats where it is on our remaining OS/2 systems.)

You can set your system to automatically start Chron in the background at boot
by adding
the following command to your startup.cmd file:
start /b /min c:\chron\chron.exe

Once Chron is running, you should be able to figure out how to define the
schedule.

The down side of using Chron instead of the ADSM Scheduler is that no
schedule.log will
be produced by Chron.

On Thursday, October 21, 1999 6:59 AM, Bob Brazner [SMTP:Bob.Brazner AT JCI DOT 
COM]
wrote:
> I don't see too many postings re OS/2, but I'm hoping somebody out there has
> a
> quick answer to two questions:  I inherited two OS/2 machines that have ADSM
> on
> them.  Backups are launched via the gui.  I'd like instead to launch the cli
> by
> way of double-clicking an icon (whose definition would consist of "dsmc inc
> -subdir=yes -this -that"), but I'm totally clueless on how to create the
icon.
>
> So, question 1 is: what is the step-by-step (assume nothing) procedure for
> creating the icon equivalent to a Windows shortcut?  We'd perhaps also like
> to
> automate the daily backup.  So, question 2 is: Aside from ADSM client polling
> (which I'd like to avoid for certain reasons), is there an OS/2 means for
> kicking off a daily backup (a la Windows 95 System Agent)?  Again, I would
> need
> the step-by-step procedure.  Thanks in advance to those who can help me.
>
> Bob Brazner
> Johnson Controls, Inc.
> (414) 228-2570