You'll need to check the archives.  A couple months ago someone asked
a similar question and someone from Tivoli posted a fix description
that said TSM no longer needed to create all the directories before
restoring files.

Rick

On 30 Aug 2000, at 11:58, Prather, Wanda wrote:
> > There were some technical changes made to the client that essentially
> > renders the need for dirmc obsolete. We are in the process of
> > decommissioning our directory diskpool/tapepools since the pools
> > containing
> > directories were very high maintenance. We are now also experiencing
> > problems getting the directories bound back to the default file management
> > class. You may want to consider leaving it the way you have it now.
> >
> >
>