There are no requirements for where in dsm.opt the PRESCHEDULECMD and
POSTSCHEDULECMD options go.

You might find the following article useful:

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21108971

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page:
http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 08/22/2007
07:04:57 AM:

> Hello,
>
> I need to stop two services before the incremental backup runs then
> restart the services
> once the backup completes. I know about the prescheduled and
postscheduled
> commands but have never used them. Where do I insert the commands in
> dsm.opt file for
> this to excute successfully? The following are the two services that
> need to be stopped
> then restarted once backup completes can someone tell me where I would
> put in the dsm.opt file?
> The dsm.opt file is below also.
>
>
> 1)Update Services
> 2) World Wide Web Publishing Service
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> TSM 5.3
> TSM 5.3.4
> AIX 5.3
>
>
>
> LANG AMENG
> DOMAIN   ALL-LOCAL
> TCPSERVERADDRESS xxxx.xxx.xxxxxx.xx
> PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE
> TCPCLIENTADDRESS xx.xx.xx.xx
> NODENAME OFSWTUS1
> subdir yes
> replace prompt
> tcpb 32
> tcpw 63
> SCHEDMODE   PROMPTED
> txnbytelimit 25600
> errorlogname c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmerror.log
> SCHEDlogname c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmsched.log
> errorlogretention 14
> schedlogretention 7
> tcpnodelay yes
> resourceutilization  3
> LARGECOMMbuffers  yes
> CHANGINGRETRIES   2
> COMPRESSIon       Yes
> BACKUPREG YES
> MANAGEDSERVICES   WEBCLIENT SCHEDULE