> Can Tivoli backup up the 'contents' of a named pipe?
>
> Is there any way I can use 'dsmc' to back up standard input?  Usually in
> this sort of situation I'd see if the Pick 'dump' command would accept a
> Unix named pipe (FIFO) as its device argument, and then run a backup
> command reading stdin from the pipe.

There is a program called 'adsmpipe' that will do this. IBM makes it available
but does not provide product support for it. See redbook SG24-4335-03 ("Using
ADSM to Back Up Databases") for details.