Process commands in interactive mode

Use the interactive mode (or loop mode) to enter a series of commands.

Enter dsmc on the command line and press Enter. When the tsm> command prompt appears, type the command name and press Enter. Do not precede each command with the executable program name, dsmc. Alternatively, you can enter dsmc loop on the command line to start a client command session in interactive mode. Loop is the default command for dsmc.

If a password is required, Tivoli® Storage Manager prompts you before you enter the first command.

Windows operating systems Type your password and press Enter.

AIX operating systems HP-UX operating systems Linux operating systems Oracle Solaris operating systems Mac OS X operating systems Type your user ID and password and press Enter.

You can also enter your password using the password option with the loop command, but your password appears on the screen. For example, if your password is secret, enter:

   dsmc loop –password=secret

To end an interactive session, enter quit at the prompt.

Note for UNIX and Linux clients:

In loop mode, following a restore operation directly from tape, the mount point is not released in case additional restore requests are made to that volume. If you request a backup operation in the same session and that mount point is the only one available, the backup operation will stop with the following message:

  Waiting for mount of offline media

In this case, the mount point is not released until one of the following conditions is met:

The device class MOUNTRETENTION limit is satisfied.
The client idletimeout period is satisfied.
The dsmc loop session is closed after the restore operation completes, allowing you to start a subsequent loop mode session to perform the backup operation.