Since queries on the backup table are very long running, maybe he would be
better off turning on -VERBOSE onthe client and processing the DSMSCHED.LOG
file. He would then get all the Expiring.. files, too. Plus it would give
the size of the file(s). You could schedule a POSTSCHEDULEcmd to ftp the log
file(s) to a central place where you could process them. Using PERL and
maybe MySQL for history data would be a good (FREE!) combination. You could
even go so far as coding up some web pages with PHP or Perl to access the
data and build the pages to be served up with Apache...again FREE!!

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.