You can run the commands from a script external of tsm. 

Something like perl, rexx, A unix shell, or windows powershell. 
You can run the dsmc command from the script where the script process the 
output of the command, the script would then build one or more scripts to be 
run from within the script.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Stephan Boldt
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:13 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] piping commands in dsmadmc

Hello,

is there any way to pipe use the output of one command as an input of
another? For example if I want to cancel a running space reclamation of a
certain storagepool. So I first have to get the process number and cancel
this process. What I'm looking for is something like this:

select process_num from processes where process='Space Reclamation' and
status like '%TAPE_FILESYSTEM%' | cancel process

Obviously this doesn't work, but is there another way to get this done?

kind regards,
Stephan