FYI, I recently found that Coderelief (a 3rd party vendor of TSM vaulting/disaster recovery software) is offering a spot on their website to store TSM freeware scripts for sharing: http://www.coderelief.com/depot.htm -----Original Message----- From: John Marquart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2/2/01 11:06 AM Subject: Re: Perl Module Adsm.pm Is it possible to put this module in CPAN and/or start a sourceforge project - so that those of us so inclined can update/develop the module / A module into something truly worthwhile to the ADSM community? Anyone want to volunteer? -j On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Gerhard Rentschler wrote: > Hi, > with some work I got Adsm.pm to work on Windows 2000. Things I had to do: > > - add path to dsmadmc to path env variable (unfortunately not done during > installation) > > - add env variables DSM_DIR and DSM_CONFIG with correct values. Otherwise > dsm.opt and dsmameng.txt will not be found. There is one special problem: > dsmc will not work with dscameng.txt for dsmadmc and vice versa. But there > is only one env variable for both. > > - comment out the check for the mode bits of .dsmrc. This check could be > modified to use a Windows-specific function. But I haven't done it yet. > > - remove /dev/null in the open statement for dsmadmc. Windows doesn't have > /dev/null. > > There might still a few problems left, e.g. the stty statement. I just > didn't run across it. > > The module is a useful tool. I does what can be done. A few well known > problems make use of dsmadmc less comfortable than it could be. The normal > output format (for example with the q se command) in columns with column > headers is difficult to process by a program. I would recommend to use > the -comma option with dsmadmc. Even this way not everything is fine. In the > output of the q db command some values are inclosed in double apostrophes, > some are not for no visible reasons. Very annoying is the fact that numbers > contain thousand separators which are useless in a comma separated output. > > So Adsm.pm is far better than nothing. But a general administration API is > what we really need. > > Best regards > Gerhad > > --- > Gerhard Rentschler email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Regional Computing Center tel. ++49/711/685 5806 > University of Stuttgart fax: ++49/711/682357 > Allmandring 30a > D 70550 > Stuttgart > Germany > John "Jamie" Marquart | This message posted 100% MS free. Digital Library SysAdmin | Work: 812-856-5174 Pager: 812-334-6018 Indiana University Libraries | ICQ: 1131494 D'net Team: 6265