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Tivoli Storage Manager Using the Application Program Interface


Operating System Interoperability

The Tivoli Storage Manager API supports cross-platform interoperability. Applications on a UNIX system can operate on filespaces and objects that are backed up from a Windows system, or from a Windows system to a UNIX system.

To achieve interoperability, perform the following setup tasks:

  1. Establish a consistent naming convention. Select a character for the dir delimiter and place it in front of the filespace name, the high-level qualifier, and the low-level qualifier.
  2. When calling dsmInitEx, set the value of the dirDelimiter field to the character that you selected; for example, /or \.
  3. Set the useUnicode flag to bFalse when you use the TSM interface, Unicode filenames and non-Unicode filenames. Do not interoperate.


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