Good Morning.
I setup in the DSM.OPT file a preschedulecmd with a batch file that I've
tested and it worked well outside of TSM.  When the backup kicked
off(serverinitiated) it failed.
In the dsmerror.log I'm receiving the following error.
------------------------------------------------------------
02/16/2005 19:01:25 ANS1902E The PRESCHEDULECMD command failed. The
scheduled event will not be executed.
02/16/2005 19:01:25 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'CAGE_DEV_INTEL' failed.
Return code = 12.
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It looked like I only needed quotes arount the command if blanks were
present which none are.
The line in the DSM.OPT file is
preschedulecmd d:\NTBACKUP\SYSTEMSTATE_Backup.bat

The backup in TSM ran fine until I added the preschedulecmd.  Nothing
ran in the batch file.

Do I need to add/change anything in the DSM.OPT file preschedulecmd?
It's running on a win2K machine with SP4 and TSM 5.2.2
The server is AIX 5.2 with TSM 5.2.2

Thanks for the help,
Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Jurjen Oskam
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 8:06 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Questions concerning file/user exits


On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:34:52AM -0000, Davis Adrian wrote:

        [ passing filetextexit output to a script ]
> I presume that this has already been thought of - So I was wondering
if
> anybody has tried it? If so are there any problems?

This is exactly what I'm doing, and it works quite well. I created
a named pipe, and let the TSM server use that as a filetextexit
(use the APPEND option). On the other end of the pipe a Perl-script
is running, which reads from the pipe and takes actions depending on
the messages it receives.

Beware that such a setup could result in unwanted signals to the TSM
server (SIGPIPE). Test this well.

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