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Tivoli Storage Manager Using the Application Program Interface


Identifying the Object

The TSM server, an object storage server whose primary function is to efficiently store and retrieve named objects, has two main storage areas, database and data storage, to meet this requirement:

Each object that is stored on the server has a name associated with it. The client controls the following key components of that name:

When making decisions about naming objects for an application, you might need to use an external name for the full object names to the end user. Specifically, the end user might need to specify the object in an Include or Exclude statement when the application is run. The exact syntax of the object name in these statements is platform-dependent. On the Windows operating system, the drive letter associated with the file space rather than the filespace name itself is used in the Include or Exclude statement. On the Novell and OS/400 operating systems, the first character of the low-level name must be a forward slash (/).


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