This is terrible.  All the windows clients I installed last week fail with a
rc=4.  I called this in yesterday and was told to wait for a callback.
Tivoli cannot add a "new feature" in a PTF without warnings.
It is not even in the README.

Eliza Lau
Virginia Tech Computing Center
Blacksburg, VA 24060

>
> Hi Joachim!
> Jeff Connor had Tivoli open APAR IC31844 for this.
> Kindest regards,
> Eric van Loon
> KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stumpf, Joachim [mailto:joachim.stumpf AT DATEV DOT DE]
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 08:09
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Fw: FW: v4.2.1 TSM Clients
>
>
> I think it's true!
>
> I tested the new client on a W2k machine and I got the same RC you described
> below.
> If one file fails (e.g. it's in use by another proccess), the schedule
> returns with a result code of 4.
>
> I hope Tivoli works on a fix for that.
> We have some automatically checking for result code <> 0 (if there was
> a problem while backing up; and I think "file in use..." isn't a big
> problem)
>
> regards,
> Joachim Stumpf
> Datev eG
>
> "Subash, Chandra" <CSSubash AT TELETECHINTL DOT COM> (Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 
> 2001,
> 06:41:31, MEST):
>
> > i HAVE GOT THIS EMAIL FROM ONE OF MY FRIENDS. GUYS WHAT DO YOU THINK IS IT
> > TRUE ?
> >
> > Hi Guys
> >
> > According to Tivoli Support they have made an alteration to way client
> > v4.2.1 reports Result code 4 to the server. Earlier version clients would
> > allow for a certain number of files to fail during the backup and still
> > report to the server that the Schedule was successful. However version
> 4.2.1
> > has been altered so that a result code of failed will be reported to the
> > server even if 1 file fails during a backup.
> > ntcmachine had been failing on some WINNT system files which I have added
> > exceptions for under direction of Tivoli support and now backups of this
> > machine seem to be successful.
> > Bob from Tivoli suggested that if we are worried about seeing failed
> result
> > codes on the daily report that there may be a way to generate a report
> > listing statistics of how many files or how much data had been backed up
> > from each machine to provide a more accurate picture as to whether the
> > backups were successful.
> >
>
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>
>
>
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