jodie,

Thank you very much! Your reply iswhat I exactly want.

BTW our Tivoli version is:

oracle:OTEBSN(db)> tdpoconf showenvironment


IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases:
Data Protection for Oracle
Version 5, Release 2, Level 0.0
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1997, 2003. All rights reserved.


DATA PROTECTION FOR ORACLE INFORMATION
Version: 5
Release: 2
Level: 0
Sublevel: 0
Platform: 32bit TDPO Linux86

Thanks,

Lily