This is Dave Cummings. I am running TSM 5.1 clients with YSM 5.1 Server running on a OS390 platform. I am having trouble with the action of my includes/excludes in my dsm.opt file. We are not running any Client Option sets. My problem is when I run a manual backup the folders that I explicity include/exclude in my dsm.opt file work. But when I schedule the backup with the client scheduler the includes/excludes seem to be ignored. I have been looking at this problem for the last 2 weeks and have tried several things (reordering the includes/excludes, grouping the exclude.dir together, etc) but nothing seems to change things. Any help would be greatly appreciated !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!