We've had to do this for a few problems in the past including one that
sounds like yours (search the archive).  In previous versions the
commands were Delete Archdescriptions and convert archive.

If you are running in rollforward mode, these command take a lot of log
space so be sure to watch that.

Tim Rushforth
City of Winnipeg

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Patterson, Scott
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:18 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: problem displaying archives on W2K/W2K3 clients..

I've been advised by TSM support to run these 2 commands against the
nodes that are having problems displaying their archived files &
directories:

UNDO ARCHCONVERSION <node_name>
CONVERT ARCHIVE <node_name>

Has anyone out there had to use similar commands.  Support says this is
a "known" problem.

Thanks again,

Scott

> _____________________________________________ 
> From:         Patterson, Scott  
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 2:24 PM
> To:   'ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU'
> Subject:      problem displaying archives on W2K/W2K3 clients..
> 
> Afternoon all,
> 
> Our TSM Server is AIX 5.2.02 at TSM 5.2.6.  This morning we noticed a
> strange problem with 2 of our windows clients that do archiving.  When
> one attempts to retrieve from the archive using the Backup-Archive GUI
> nothing displays in the window.  In this case "nothing" means you only
> see the directory structure.  One client is W2K and the other is W2K.
> Both clients were originally at version 5.1.5 of the client.  When we
> saw the problem, we installed version 5.3.015 of the GUI.  Nothing at
> all changed with what was being displayed (what was NOT being
> displayed) in the window.  DSMC RETREIVE commands do work from the
> command line.
> 
> Data which was backed up displays correctly in the RESTORE windows.
> 
> Has anyone seen similar behavior?
> 
> Scott