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Tivoli Storage Manager Using the Application Program Interface
The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) application program interface (API)
enables an application client to use storage management functions. The
API includes function calls that you can use in an application to perform the
following operations:
- Start or end a session
- Assign management classes to objects before they are stored on a server
- Back up or archive objects to a server
- Restore or retrieve objects from a server
- Query the server for information about stored objects
- Manage filespaces.
When you, as an application developer, install the API, you receive:
- The files that an end user of an application needs:
- The API shared library
- The messages file
- The dsmtca file (UNIX and OS/400 only)
- The sample client options files.
- The source code for the API header files that your application
needs.
- The source code for a sample application, and the makefile to build
it.
- Note:
- When you install the API, ensure that all files are at the same level.
For information about installing the API, see the installation procedures
in the Tivoli Storage Manager Installing and Using the Backup-Archive
Client for your operating system.
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