Nancy,

APAR IC27346 has a pretty good discussion on this, and many of the path
length limitations were resolved in 4.1 (and up). Here is a link to an old
post that includes the pertinent text of the APAR.

http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0104/491.html

Note that the above item refers to the USEUNICODEFILENAMES setting, which
is no longer relevant in 4.2 and 5.1.

After reading the above info, please feel free to let me know if you have
any other questions.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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I have a TSM v4.1 Windows client that is getting ANS4018E and ANS1228E
errors because of really long paths. Can anyone tell me what the limit is?
I have searched the manuals and I'm guessing 256, but I would like to
confirm that. Can the limit be changed? (I'm guessing no.) And, would a
later version of the client change the limit?

Thanks.

Nancy Reeves
Technical Support, Wichita State University
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