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Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide

Using Interactive Mode

Use interactive mode when you want to issue a series of commands. Because Tivoli Storage Manager establishes the connection to the server only once for interactive mode, you can process a series of commands more quickly in interactive mode than in batch mode.

To start a client command session in interactive mode, enter the dsmc or dsmc loop command. When you press Enter, this prompt displays on your screen:

   tsm>

When you are in interactive mode, do not precede commands with dsmc. For example, instead of typing dsmc archive to archive a file, type only archive.

Depending upon the current setting of your passwordaccess option, Tivoli Storage Manager may prompt you for your password the first time you enter a command in an interactive session.

When you type your password and press Enter, the password does not display on your screen. If Tivoli Storage Manager is unable to authenticate your ID and password, you cannot use Tivoli Storage Manager services.

After you start an interactive session, some options are valid in interactive mode and remain in effect throughout the session unless you reenter them with a different setting. However, most options are valid only on the initial command line. To identify which options must be entered in this way, see Chapter 10, "Using Options with Commands". If Tivoli Storage Manager does not find the dsm.sys file, it displays an error message and stops processing. In this case, see your administrator to determine the location of the option file Tivoli Storage Manager should use.

See Chapter 11, Using Commands for information on how to start and use the command line client.


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