Just another thougt: the DB2 logs are archived and not backed up (if I'm not 
mistaken? Correct me if I am). So after the value RETVAL, they are deleted 
automatically in TSM and you don't need no longer the db2adutl tool.

And another question? How about the synchronization with the history log file? 
Just delete entries older than a certain time period with

'prune history timestamp with force option'

Kurt


>Hello again,
>
>I'm getting confused how the DB2 backups (DB2 7.1 on AIX 5.1 32bit) must be 
>>deleted in TSM (TSM server 5.1.6.3 also in AIX 5.1 32bit).
>
>Will the following command:
>
>'$db2adutl delete older than 14 days'
>
>delete only the full/incremental/delta backups older than 14 days or are the 
>>logs that have been backed up older than 14 days also deleted?
>
>or do you have to delete the logs with the command:
>
>'$db2adutl delete logs between Sxxxxxx and Syyyyyy'
>
>and in that case, does somebody already have a script to determine the Sxxxxx 
>>log file and Syyyyy log file. It shouldnt be too difficult but what if the 
>log >numbering returns from S9999999 to S0000000.
>
>A lot of theoretical questions again, but I don't have a test DB2 server at 
>>the moment where I can verify it. Thanks for any help.

>Kurt