Not sure what OS you are using, But a time calculation works perfect.

If the day of the week is Sunday, add 7 days to date, if month is now
different run backup. My example is for VMS.

Always works, never have to worry about leap years or Februarys.

It can be submitted from TSM scheduling VIA a schedule that is set to
command. But as long as the command runs fine you will never know about
completion status... More scripting will be required for notification.

-----Original Message-----
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU]
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 10:24 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: last sunday of the month


There is some rudimentary logic control in TSM scripting; probably not
enough to do what you want.
You'll probably end up using shell scripts anyway; that's what I do.

The available logic control is described in the TSM admin guide, in the
chapter "Automating Server Operations".

All the documentation is online; go to :

http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/index.html

Click the link to Publications & Documents.
That will take you to the "Tivoli Info Center" page.

Click on "S" for "Storage Manager", then pick the link for your server:

TSM for Aix
TSM for Windows,
etc

to get to all the books in PDF or HTML format.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Stabler [mailto:dstabler AT MORRISONHOMES DOT COM]
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 12:55 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: last sunday of the month


While we can do it in cron by picking specific days, and then adding
logic to manage if this is the last Sunday....

Is there a logic flow structure in TSM scripting?  I've got an
installation with no documentation, so I've been using shell and dsmadmc
a lot... :)

The logic would work like this....

Run every Sunday
  Check Day_of_Month
  do *NOT* run if < 23.
  do run if > 25
  for 25, run if Month=4,6,9,11
  for 24, run if Month=1,3,5,7,8,10,12
  for 23, run if Month=2

Is there a facility to check this sort of thing?  We can substr the
current_timestamp, but can we store that to a "variable" and do
comparison testing and branches?

-drs-

David Stabler, CATE/AIX, CNCE
Senior Systems Analyst

>>> stapleto AT BERBEE DOT COM 08/19/02 08:55AM >>>
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf
Of
Burak Demircan
> How do you achieve to create a schedule for every last sunday of
> the month?
> (there could be 4 or 5 sundays??)

Use cron or the Windows scheduler service. There isn't any way to do it
with
the TSM scheduler.

--
Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Certified TSM consultant
Certified AIX system engineer
MCSE