On Sep 7, 2007, at 6:05 AM, Angus Macdonald wrote:

I have a lot of very old files in various Windows filesystems,
which I would like to archive. Many of them have not changed in
years but are often opened for reference only, so the modified date
doesn't change. I would like to archive everything that has not
been accessed (ie opened at all) since a certain date? Can TSM do
this? I can't see any options for the Archive command to select
files by age.

I have a Veritas system that can do it easily but I'm trying to
retire it!

Angus -

No, TSM can't do this, at its current state of development.  This
gets back to my recent posting regarding the TSM CLI being neglected
such that it doesn't provide rather basic capabilities that customers
should expect, and doesn't try to remain competitive relative to what
other vendors are doing.  Client development needs an infusion of
fresh ideas and motivated people.  And, probably, the big company
needs less bureaucracy stifling creativity and the implementation of
new ideas.  Look at the rich capabilities in the Linux command set,
as a public example of people regularly adding helpful features to
software: TSM's CLI looks utterly stunted by comparison.

Probably your best bet is to create a small perl script which does
the date test and invoke dsmc archive as appropriate.

   Richard Sims  at Boston University