You might try something like this...

:setvar myvar  hpyear*10000+hpmonth*100+hpdate
:showvar myvar
MYVAR = 961127
:setvar myvar "F"+ "!myvar"
:showvar myvar
MYVAR = F961127

Since I know next to nothing about DECservers, I added the second part to
start the proposed filename with an alpha "F" which would denote a full
backup.  "P" would be for partial.

Mark Ranft
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> Help please.
> I am not a programmer and have not worked on HPs for nine years, but my
> first job is to make our HP3000/957 MPE/iX a paperless CPU as far as
> operations are concerned.
> One of the purposes of this is to make our unatended batch backup (using
> turbostore) not print out its listing, but to FTP the listing to a
DECserver
> on the network.  This DECserver is used tostore all the backup listings
from
> all our CPUs.
> However I have to call the backup listing by a filename that is obvious
and
> I thought that if the filename was to contain the date of the backup as
well
> as some indication to if it was a full or incremental backup this would
> solve the problem (especially with the retention of the listing).
> This is to be all automatic so i would have to include it in the backup
> batch job.
> If someone can give me help with using the variable HPDATE so i can
> automatically change the backup listing into a file name for ready for
FTP I
> would appreciate it.  As yet I do not know anything about HP variables
and
> will have to learn fast.
> thanks and regards
> Terry
>