Thanks for the workaround Del,  this is not directed at you.

Surely this would have come up and been solved in any reasonable beta
test program, well before being inflicted on long-suffering customers?
Sometimes I wonder if any consideration is given to those who use the
product day to day.  The idiotic work arounds that we have to use, that
have been in the TSM for years and continue to cause wasted time and
effort by everyone flabbergast me.  One of my accounts has just gone off
to something that promises a brand new approach.  Time will tell if the
reality matches the glossies, but this is exactly the sort of reason why
they leave.

Spleen vented, submerging again,
Steve

Steven Harris
TSM Admin
Canberra Australia


On 13/02/2014 5:04 AM, Del Hoobler wrote:

Hi Steve,

See if this helps:

         http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21597023

BTW... this is a known requirement. There are plans to add
this function directly to the launch of the MMC soon.


Thank you,

Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> wrote on 02/12/2014
11:46:58 AM:

From: "Schaub, Steve" <Steve_Schaub AT BCBST DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu,
Date: 02/12/2014 12:36 PM
Subject: TDP for SQL 6.4.1 cross-server restore setup
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>

Windows 2012, TSM & TDP 6.4.1

Our DBA's do a fair amount of cross-server restores here.  Since I
cant depend on them editing the dsm.opt file (tried that before,
ended up with a bunch of backups in the wrong place because they
forgot to change it back), I came up with a little pre-launch script
that allows them to pick a SQL node from our inventory to restore
from, then builds a temp opt file using that node name, and launches
the tdp gui using that opt file.

However, now that 6.4.1 has killed off the tdp gui in favor of the
mmc, I haven't been able to figure out how to achieve the same
results.  Can someone tell me how to launch the mmc using an
alternate opt file?