Renee,

Provided that you have a recent version  of the client, you can pass a list of 
files to it with -filelist

Just use the appropriate find command for your OS to create the list before 
invoking dsmc.

eg for unix 

find /foo/bar -name '*.frobz" -mtime +5 -path > /tmp/backup$$
dsmc arch -<other options as necessary> -deletefiles -filelist /tmp/backup$$
rm /tmp/backup$$

HTH

Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia
 

>>> rdavis AT UH DOT EDU 21/05/2004 6:39:06 >>>
I have a user that wishes to run a batch job that archives a certain
directory and deletes the files afterwards. In selecting the files to be
archived and deleted, he wants to use  a relative date  (like -deletefile
-fromdate=today-5) since this is a script and he does not wish to have to
modify the date every time. Any ideas how to accomplish this would be
helpful and also, does anyone know if the -fromdate -todate options accept
relative dates?
--
Renee Davis
University of Houston



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