Ooh, that's really sneaky!  I like it!



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Another option is to create another script which calls the sleep command
on
your TSM server with an immediate action.  You need to be in prompted
schedule mode to use this method.  Here is how I do it:

DEFINE SCRIPT  SLEEP DESC="Enter number of seconds to wait as a
variable"
UPDATE SCRIPT  SLEEP "define clientaction TSMSERVERNAME action=command
-"
UPDATE SCRIPT  SLEEP "objects='sleep ""$1""' wait=yes"

Then in your other scripts where you need a pause you can have a line
like
so:
RUN SLEEP 30



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I have a short server command script that changes the reclamation
setting and then immediately resets it back, in order to start a
reclamation process for any tapes that are over the threshold.

When I run the two commands manually, there is enough time between them
to allow a reclamation process to kick off.

When I run them as part of a script, they run so quickly that there is
no time for a reclamation process to start before it is reset back to
100.

Here are the two lines in the script:

update stg tapearchivepool01 recl=87
update stg tapearchivepool01 recl=100

What I need is the equivalent of the sleep command, so that I can delay
a few seconds between the two update commands, something similar to:

update stg tapearchivepool01 recl=87
sleep 10
update stg tapearchivepool01 recl=100

Any suggestions?  I want to just have one script do the kickoff as well
as resetting the recl back to 100.  I need to run this at certain times
of the day that I have available drives,   so I thought a server command
script would be appropriate.  If anybody has alternate approaches, I
would also be interested.  The wait=yes option doesn't work for the
update stg command, unfortunately.

Thanks in advance for your help.


John M. Ritter
Systems Software Specialist
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN  37232
Email:  john.ritter AT vanderbilt DOT edu