Release notes for Tivoli Storage Manager Application Programming Interface Version 7.1

IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager Application Programming Interface (API) V7.1 is available. Read this document to find important installation information. You can also learn about product updates, compatibility issues, limitations, and known problems.

Description
Announcement
Compatibility with earlier versions
System requirements
Installing the API
Updates, limitations, and known problems

Description

The Tivoli Storage Manager API enables an application client to use storage management functions. The API includes function calls that you can use in an application to run 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 file spaces
Send retention events

The API is used by software developers to create new applications that work with Tivoli Storage Manager.

The publication entitled IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Using the Application Programming Interface provides information about how to use the Tivoli Storage Manager API.

The Tivoli Storage Manager API is available on the following operating systems:

HP-UX
IBM AIX®
Linux
Mac OS X
Microsoft Windows
Oracle Solaris

For a list of the APARs that are fixed in this release, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21648007.

Announcement

The Tivoli Storage Manager V7.1 announcement is available at http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi. See the announcement for the following information:

Detailed product description, including a description of new functions
Product-positioning statement
Packaging and ordering details
International compatibility information

To search for the product announcement, complete the following steps:

Go to the product announcement website at http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi.
In the Search for field, enter the product identifier (PID) for your product. The PID for Tivoli Storage Manager is 5608-E01.
In the Information Type field, select Announcement letters, and click Search.
From the Search in list, select Product Number.
Optional: In the Refine Your Search pane on the left side of the window, select the country where you reside.
In the Sort by section, select Newest first.

Compatibility with earlier versions

For compatibility with earlier versions, see IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server/Client Compatibility and Upgrade Considerations at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21053218.

System requirements

For information about hardware and software compatibility, see the detailed system requirements document at the following web pages:

Apple Macintosh client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21053584
HP-UX Itanium client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21197146
IBM AIX client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21052226
Linux on Power® systems client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21169963
Linux x86_64 client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21052223
Linux on System z® client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21066436
Microsoft Windows client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21197133
Oracle Solaris SPARC client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21052211

Installing the API

For installation instructions, see Installing the API in the Tivoli Storage Manager information center.

Updates, limitations, and known problems

Documentation updates, limitations, and known problems are documented as technotes in the Support knowledge base at http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager. As problems are discovered and resolved, IBM Software Support updates the knowledge base. By searching the knowledge base, you can find workarounds or solutions to problems.

Limitations and known problems: For the limitations and known problems that affect the Tivoli Storage Manager V7.1 API, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21646969.
Documentation updates: For information that was not available at the time of publication, see the documentation updates at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27039355.