If you are doing this from the command line in AIX..... dsmadmc -id=<yourID> -password=<yourPW> "select whatever from whereever, etc" | tail +XX | grep -v YY > new_filename
If you are doing this to a file that was created from the dsmadmc client already.. it is very similar... cat <filename> | tail +XX | grep -v YY > new_filename where XX = the number of rows you want removed from the top where YY = some unique text in the line you want to exclude David E Ehresman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <deehre01@LOUIS cc: VILLE.EDU> Subject: SQL Output Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ST.EDU> 04/24/02 12:15 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" I there a way to get JUST the output from a select statement into a file without the TSM version header info at the beginning and the condition code at the end? This is TSM 4.2 on Aix 5.1. David