On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, James Marcinek wrote:

 > Can someone explain how to backup the database to disk file versus sequential
 > access

You create a file device class, eg.,

 DEFINE DEVCLASS LOCALFILES DEVTYPE=FILE FORMAT=DRIVE MAXCAPACITY=1048576K 
MOUNTLIMIT=3 DIRECTORY="C:\TSMDATA" SHARED=NO

For the directory, I recommend to use a local filesystem. 

Now tell TSM to use this device class for db backup:

 BACKUP DB ... DEVCLASS=LOCALFILES

or

 DEFINE DBBACKUPTRIGGER DEVCLASS=LOCALFILES ...

 Rainer Schöpf