I have been fighting this issue with client development for the better
part of a year.  They are looking to improve the reliability of the return
codes, but officaly the "Do not support them".  If you contact Level 2
support with a blatently wrong RC code from a client and let them know,
most likly they will open an APAR aganst it.

Keith Davey


On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Richard Sims wrote:

> >We have a desire to move the scheduling of some of our TSM backups out of
> >the TSM scheduler,  and instead launch them via a scheduling package (Tivoli
> >Maestro).  I found several threads in the archives refering to the return
> >code of "dsmc" not being a reliable mechanism to use to confirm a successful
> >backup,  but these threads were dated.  I then talked to Tivoli support,
> >and they say the client return codes are now reliable.  Does anyone know of
> >any caveats I need to be aware of related to launching backups via an
> >external scheduler?
>
> Don - The reliability of nothing = nothing.  I don't know what Tivoli
>       Support's assertion means if there exists no documentation of
> client return codes.  (For assurance, I just did a PDF search of the 4.1 AIX
> and Windows client manuals, the Installing the Clients manual, the Quick
> Reference, and the 4.1 Messages manual, which turned up no documentation of
> return codes.)  I have never seen any documentation of client return codes,
> and the last statement we heard from Development on this list was that there
> were no return codes.
>     Richard Sims, BU
>