I'm trying to script a parser for the bootstrap file created by ISM on
completion of backups; something that scans the file once daily and
reports on what & when etc.
There are various reasons for this but I shan't bore you with the
details.
Only trouble is, I'd like to perform various actions depending on the
combination of values in two of the fields in the file: "level" and
"volume" but the value under "level" can be either "full" or "9" for a
level-0 whole-system backup, seems to be no consistency to it. Grrrrr!
Any clues as to what causes this?

Hmm. I think this is because ISM (as it derives
from a now rather old version of Legato ...)
actually has 9 backup levels. "Full" should
correspond to what we (Informix) normally
call a level-0 (as in zero) backup. I do not
recall, what the other levels (1-8) are there
for ... nor do I remember having seen them
in use too much...

[ The level 9 backup is (if I recall correctly)
done for the ISM internal catalog (or
something like it). It anyway is a good idea
to change this to a level-0 (i.e. full) backup.
You have to edit the onbar script file and
find some command with "savegroup". Then
find out the correct parameter for this to
change the level-9 to level-0 (or full).
This will then prevent that you have to find
and put the very first tape you used with ISM
when you want (or maybe have to) to re-build
the ISM catalog in order to be able to do a
restore ... Just a hint - with lots of incomplete
information here. Sorry, this is what I re-call. ]

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