Administrator's Reference
Use the DSMFMT utility to create files for the TSM database, recovery log,
or storage pool volumes. The parameters positional but not
case-sensitive.
- The DSMFMT utility does not destroy or modify an existing file.
- If a file does not format, DSMFMT issues an error message for that file
and then continues to format the next file on the list.
Syntax
.--------------------.
.- -m--. .- -data--. V |
>>-dsmfmt----+------+---+---------+------file_name--size---+---><
+- -k--+ +- -db----+
+- -m--+ +- -log---+
'- -g--' '- -data--'
Parameters
- unit
- Specifies the unit for the size of the file. Possible values
are:
- -k
- Specifies kilobyte.
- -m
- Specifies megabyte. This is the default.
- -g
- Specifies gigabyte.
- file_type
- Specifies the type of file to be formatted. Possible values
are:
- -db
- Specifies the file is to be a database volume.
- -log
- Specifies the file is to be a recovery log volume.
- -data
- Specifies the file is to be a storage pool volume. This is the
default.
- file_name (Required)
- Specifies the name of the file to be formatted.
- size (Required)
- Specifies as an integer, the size of the file to be formatted. For
database and recovery log files, the allocated file size is always a multiple
of 4MB (plus an additional 1MB for overhead). The minimum file sizes
are 9MB for the recovery log, 5MB for the database, and 1MB for data storage
files
Examples
- Task 1
- Format two recovery log volumes having 9MB of storage each:
dsmfmt -m -log logvol1 9 logvol2 9
- Task 2
- Format a database volume having 5MB of storage:
dsmfmt -m -db dbvol1 9
- Task 3
- Format storage volumes backvol and archvol having
21MB and 9MB of storage respectively:
dsmfmt -m -data backvol 21 archvol 9
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