If POSTSCHEDULECMD fails, the schedule shows up as COMPLETED with RC 8,
not FAILED. In general (excepting schedules with ACTION=COMMAND) RCs 0, 4,
and 8 are considered "Completed" (successful), and RC 12 is "Failed"
(failed).

Chapter 7 in the client manual describes RC 8 thus:

"The operation completed with at least one warning message. For scheduled
events, the status will be Completed. "

By design, a POSTSCHEDULECMD operation that fails does not cause the
scheduled event to fail. But you can still tell if it didn't work by
checking not only the status, but the return code.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 09/28/2007
07:55:40 AM:

> Greetings,
> We are just testing using pre and post schedule commands on our AIX
> systems (TSM client 5.3.4.0, and TSM 5.3.4.2 server) and having a
> problem.
>
> We want a non-zero return code from either the pre- and post- scripts to
> show up the backup as a failure.  According to the manual, a non-zero
> return code from the preschedulecmd will cause the schedule to fail with
> a FAILED 12, and a non-zero return code from the the postschedulecmd
> will cause the schedule to fail with a FAILED 8.
>
> We tested this with two simple scripts, and the a non-zero return code
> from the preschedulecmd does indeed cause the schedule to fail with a
> FAILED 12.
>
> But it doesn't work for the postschedulecmd.  A non-zero return code
> still causes the schedule to complete successfully.  Yes, we can tell
> the post script is running, since it generates a log of it's execution,
> including the return code it is producing.
>
> Has anyone else see this?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> John D. Schneider
> Lead System Administrator - Storage
> Sisters of Mercy Health System
> Email:  schnjd AT stlo.mercy DOT net