Hi, Matthew -

Another of those cases where the client programming fails to explain
problems that it finds and could interpret, resulting in a lot of
wasted customer time.

I believe that this condition can occur where there is a conflict in
file system object type. For example, the object was originally
backed up and stored in TSM storage as a directory, but in the
current backup the TSM client finds that object to be a file. The CLI
output is not helpful in this case, except to verify existence, as
the CLI remains exasperatingly primitive, even in TSM 5, failing to
provide any way to report the object type. You could instead use the
GUI, drilling down to that point in the filespace, to identify the
object type; or do a more arduous Select in the BACKUPS table for
TYPE. (In worse cases, there may be non-visible binary bytes in the
name which throw things off, put there by the file's creator, or by
file system corruption.)

You'll have to poke around to ascertain what the story is, and
possibly compensate by object renaming in the client file system.

   Richard Sims

On Jun 7, 2005, at 8:27 AM, Warren, Matthew (Retail) wrote:

06/07/05   12:51:08 WARNING: InsertSlashHack missing dirDelimter,
continuing...
06/07/05   12:51:08 ANS1228E Sending of object
'/prod/bsmsb01/app/generis/var/out/import/actioned' failed
06/07/05   12:51:08 ANS1304W Active object not found


I cant see anything on IBM's site other than one InsertSlashHack
problem
that doesn't appear to be related, and various ANS1304W problems
that do
not appear to be related.

A query backup of the offending directory shows an Active file exists

Node Name: SKANE-0
Session established with server RUTLAND: AIX-RS/6000
  Server Version 5, Release 2, Level 2.0
  Server date/time: 06/07/05   13:03:10  Last access: 06/07/05
12:50:04

tsm> q ba /prod/bsmsb01/app/generis/var/out/import/actioned
             Size      Backup Date        Mgmt Class A/I File
             ----      -----------        ---------- --- ----
            96  B  06/04/05   04:20:04    MC_RMM_UNI  A
/prod/bsmsb01/app/generis/var/out/import/actioned