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Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Tivoli
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
Thanks for submitting this enhancement request, we plan to address this requirement in a future release of the product. via a PTF
Attachment (Description): IBM case 16758 033 000 has been opened.
Attachment (Description): The issue occurs when the window is missed because the client cannot communicate with the STORServer server (network issue, or STORServer server is down etc.) We consider this to be a flaw because (as you can see in the attached log file) the preschedulecmd executes once the client re-establishes connectivity with the STORServer server and THEN checks the scheduler and says: "Oh, I'm outside the window, I won't back up". But, it brings the database down. This happened during the day (at 11:00 A.M. last week) when all our district users were attached and working and then the preschedulecmd ran (shutting down the database) and all our phones started ringing off the hook. One of our senior techs feels that the "world should be notified of this flaw" which effectively nullifies the value of having the preschedulecmd shut down the database (whether the preschedulecmd is in the client's dsm.sys file or even if it is set up in the STORServer server's command option (effectively handing control over to TSM).