Your window in which the schedule has to start is 5 days. Decrease it to for 
instance 5 minutes and it should start in a reasonable time period.

If you restart the scheduler from a command prompt (dsmc sched), you can see 
the countdown until the schedule starts.

Kurt
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 "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote:
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>Hi to all,
>
>I am using the command DEFINE CLIENTACTION to schedule a client to process
>a command for a one-time action.
>
>Policy Domain Name: BWDOMAIN
>Schedule Name: @6
>Action: COMMAND
>Option: -
>Objects: /home/db2inst/backupsample.sh
>Priority:1
>Start date: 28/01/2003
>Duration:5
>Duration Units: DAYS
>Period:-
>Period Units: ONETIME
>Day of week: ANY
>Expire:-
>
>When i submit that command i receive the following:
>
>Policy Domain Name: BWDOMAIN
>Schedule Name: @6
>Node name: SAP-BW
>Scheduled Start: 28/01/2003 12:00
>Actual Start:
>Completed:
>Status: PENDING
>Result:
>
>Any ideas why is in PENDING status?
>
>Thanks in advance
>Nick
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