Hi Alejandro, the TSM Manual "Using the Application Program Interface, Version 5 Release 1" says in chapter 3 under "Receiving Data from a Server" (p. 42), that you can restore or retrieve only those objects that were backed up or archived using API calls.
So interoperability between B/A (GUI) Client and API might not work in your case. Christiane Klauk Stanfield Alejandro To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <AStanfie@PEC cc: OM.COM> Subject: API Query - Format unknown Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU> 02.01.03 14:55 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Hi, happy new year to all!!! Has anyone been able to query the client backup files from a custom program using the TSM API? I tried using the dsmapi.exe as a starting point to query backup objects (made with the GUI/CLI clients) from the TSM API but I'm constantly getting "format unknown" for files I can see using the GUI: *** dsmGetNextQObj failed: ANS1245E (RC122) Format unknown It looks like if the API would reject passing info to the DAPISMP.exe app which was not sent to TSM using the API (I'm able to backup a file using dapismp.exe and then I get the right results) Can someone tell me how to bypass this limitation? Server and clients are all Windows based. My final objective is to scan the metadata in the server in order to gather some statistics on versions, sizes, dates, etc Thanks in advance Regards Alex