Hi, Folks!

Regarding my post last week on this subject, I have received numerous
responses with some very good ideas.  I've been buried with a major
release of my source code on a project (we had some minor problems
like the server died and such...just little things ;-)  ) but I wanted
to let those who responded know that I did receive the suggestions. I
hope to have tested a couple of the suggested methods by Wednesday or
so and I'll certainly post here in the list once we settle on what we
intend to use.

I do agree with one person's comment that this is something IBM should
explicitly address in a future release.  ADSTAR is such a terrific
backup/restore product in other ways that it is only logical customers
would want to use it for other archiving functions than just disaster
recovery.  I think what I'll do once we have a working interim
solution is to put together a "wish list" and submit it to IBM for
consideration; it'll also end up here for your comments :-)  .

Thanks again, everyone.  I'll try to get my test results out here
quickly.

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