What exactly is in the PRECMD.BAT and POSTCMD.BAT files? The
problem may have nothing to do with desktop interaction, but
with the commands inside the batch files. For instance, is
there anything in there that relies on certain environment
variables being set?

Instead of redirecting the output of PRECMD.BAT and POSTCMD.BAT,
you might try redirecting the output of each command within these
files. Be sure to redirect both stdout and stdin, i.e., each file
might contain:

command1 > cmd1.out 2>&1
command2 > cmd2.out 2>&1

etc. This might help shed some light.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Storage Systems Division
ADSM Client Development
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Thanks for your reply.
I checked the "Interact with desktop option" - and got no error.
Now a DOS window flashes up for the pre- and postschedule command.
But still none of both commands is executed.
I modified the commands to pipe the output to a file (preschedulecmd
"I:\ADSM\COMMANDS\WINNT\PRECMD.BAT > C:\PRE.TXT")
The file is created, but has a size of 0 bytes.

Do you think this problem will be solved by the September PTF?

Kind regards
Thomas Rupp

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:  Piche, Dennis (D.M.) [SMTP:dpiche1 AT FORD DOT COM]
> Gesendet am:  Montag, 10. August 1998 14:43
> An:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Betreff:      Re: Returncode 1 from PRESCHEDULECMD
>
> I have had similar problems with preschedule commands.  Sometimes the
> "Interact with desktop option" needs to be checked on the Scheduler
> Service.
> There is a problem with doing that though.  If you have set up the
> scheduler
> with the name "ADSM Central Scheduler Service" (so that you can modify
> the
> scheduler through ADSM Services (Swiss Army Knife)) and you check the
> "Interact with desktop option", you will get an error when bringing up
> ADSM
> Services.  This error will be fixed in the September PTF as per IBM.
>
> ----
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>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   Rupp Thomas (Illwerke)
> [SMTP:thomas.rupp AT ILLWERKE.CO DOT AT]
>         Sent:   Friday, August 07, 1998 7:01 AM
>         Subject:        Returncode 1 from PRESCHEDULECMD
>
>         Hi everybody,
>         I'm running ADSM/VM 2 and Backup Clients for Windows NT V3.1.
>         My DSM.OPT looks like
>
>         preschedulecmd "I:\ADSM\COMMANDS\WINNT\PRECMD.BAT"
>         postschedulecmd "I:\ADSM\COMMANDS\WINNT\POSTCMD.BAT"
>
>         This pre and post commands end with returncode 1. No message
>         tells what's going wrong but the commands in the bat-files are
> not
>         executed.
>         Does anyone know what this returncode means or where I can
> find
>         more information?
>
>         Thanks in advance.
>
>         Kind regards
>         Thomas Rupp
>         Vorarlberger Illwerke AG
>         MAIL:   thomas.rupp AT illwerke.co DOT at
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