I have been fighting this issue with client development for the better
part of a year. They are looking to improve the reliability of the return
codes, but officaly the "Do not support them". If you contact Level 2
support with a blatently wrong RC code from a client and let them know,
most likly they will open an APAR aganst it.
Keith Davey
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Richard Sims wrote:
> >We have a desire to move the scheduling of some of our TSM backups out of
> >the TSM scheduler, and instead launch them via a scheduling package (Tivoli
> >Maestro). I found several threads in the archives refering to the return
> >code of "dsmc" not being a reliable mechanism to use to confirm a successful
> >backup, but these threads were dated. I then talked to Tivoli support,
> >and they say the client return codes are now reliable. Does anyone know of
> >any caveats I need to be aware of related to launching backups via an
> >external scheduler?
>
> Don - The reliability of nothing = nothing. I don't know what Tivoli
> Support's assertion means if there exists no documentation of
> client return codes. (For assurance, I just did a PDF search of the 4.1 AIX
> and Windows client manuals, the Installing the Clients manual, the Quick
> Reference, and the 4.1 Messages manual, which turned up no documentation of
> return codes.) I have never seen any documentation of client return codes,
> and the last statement we heard from Development on this list was that there
> were no return codes.
> Richard Sims, BU
>