I may not understand the problem, but if the client is UNIX you can just use
CRON.

You don't have to set VIRTUALNODENAME if you pass the nodename you want with
the command:

dsmc restore -nodename=othernode -password=blah  fromfilespec tofilespec

Only problem with this is that you tend to end up leaving the passwords
hardcoded into the script.

Instead you can go to client 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and AUTHORIZE client 6 to have
access to a specific file.
Then you can restore it with
dsmc restore -fromnode=client1  fromfilespec tofilespec

without having to pass the passwords.


(A caveat, remember you can only restore files from UNIX clients to UNIX
clients, or INTEL to INTEL, not ANY to ANY.)







> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Owens [SMTP:Mark_Owens AT PRODIGY DOT NET]
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 2:40 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Exploiting Virtualnodename
>
> Hi,
>
> Using ADSM client 3.1.20.6  & OS/390 1.3.0  Server, does anyone know of a
> way where I can request
> one ADSM client (UNIX) to perform a restore of ANY registered nodes backup
> data? VIRTUALNODENAME
> comes close but I can't define more than one nodename. I would like to
> automatically schedule
> restores of a specific file which was backed-up by machine
> 1,2,3,4,5......... then request machine 6
> to perform a restore of machine1's file, then machine2, etc.........
>
>
> Mark Owens
> Prodigy Communications Corporation
> 914 448 1912