Interesting.... I'll have to look into this. If you don't specify the DEAULTSERVERNAME option in dsm.sys, the default stanza should be the *first* one in the list, not the last.
Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/01/2004 11:49:16: > My finding is that if you have several stanzas > Server A > ... > > Server B > > And you do a dsmc it will automatically connect to server B and not server > A. That is important to us because if we have an oracle database connecting > with one node name and the client files being backed up as a different node > name we use the dsmc -se=servera if we want to use servera or vice versa. > If we just typed dsmc we would get serverb. We had some issues with some > backup software that wouldn't let us specify a node name or a server name so > we had to make it the bottom most stanza so it would connect with the node > name that we preferred and then just used the -se option for everything > else. > > Becky
