If you want to use different options than those specified in the default client user-options file (dsm.opt), you can create your own client user-options file.
You can set all of the options that can be set in the default user options file. Creating a customized client user-options file (dsm.opt) is an optional task. To create or modify a client user-options file, use the following method:
- Contact the Tivoli® Storage Manager administrator on your workstation to determine the location of the sample client user-options file dsm.opt.smp, and to get the TCP/IP address of the backup server you are connecting to and the port it listens on.
- Copy dsm.opt.smp to your home directory as dsm.opt, or a new file name of your choice. You can store your client user-options file in any directory to which you have write access.
- Set the DSM_CONFIG environment variable to point to your new client user-options file.
- Edit your dsm.opt file as appropriate for your system or use the Tivoli Storage Manager Preferences editor by selecting from the Tivoli Storage Manager Java™ GUI.
Once you have created an options file, you can use the following steps to edit your options file from the GUI.
- Open the Edit menu and select Preferences.
- Make any necessary changes, then click OK to save those changes.
Important: For Mac OS X, the system-options
file must be a plain text file, encoded as Unicode (UTF-8). By default,
TextEdit does not save files as plain text. Select to save the user-options file as a plain text file.
Set the Plain Text Encoding: to Unicode
(UTF-8). Do not add the .txt extension.