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Tivoli Storage Manager Using the Application Program Interface


Setting Up Options Files

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:

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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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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