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Tivoli Storage Manager Using the Application Program Interface
Use the options files to set the conditions and boundaries under which your
TSM session runs. The TSM administrator, the end user, or you can set
the available options. The values of various options permit you
to:
- Set up the connection to a TSM server.
- Control which objects are sent to the server and with what management
class they are associated.
The same option can appear in more than one options file. When this
happens, the file with the highest priority takes precedence. The
options files, in order of decreasing priority, include:
- Administrator options.
Options that a TSM administrator sets, whether on the client or the server,
override any options that are set by you or the end user. For example,
the administrator can specify whether or not objects can be compressed before
being sent to a TSM server. In this case, setting the
compression option in the client options file has no effect.
The administrator can also decide that the client should decide to permit
compression. Setting the compression option in the client
options file then determines if objects are compressed before they are
stored.
- The TSM options files on the UNIX platform include
the user options file (dsm.opt) and the system options file
(dsm.sys). The end user sets up these files when the
API is first installed on the user's workstation.
For more information on the options available, see Tivoli Storage
Manager Installing the Clients.
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