Andrew,

Thank you for your quick reply.

I have two comments however.  First the documentation should be
corrected.  README files are great but typically they are only read (if
at all) when a system is initially installed or for a major update.  For
day-to-day usage most of us rely on the documentation.  Furthermore,
with the new paradigm of having the documentation on line I think it is
reasonable to expect that they make up to date changes in the on line
documentation.  There is no reason for them to state that dsmj does work
with virtual nodename and then over ride it in a README file.  I would
be much more effective to have the on line documentation updated.

The second is why don't the fix dsmj so that it operates at least as
good as the older dsm version!  This seems like we have taken a step
backwards in functionality.  In addition we lost the estimate feature as
well, not that I was a big fan of it but it did come in handy once in a
while.  Clearly both of these functions could be added into dsmj with
just a little bit nippling by some Java Junkie.  I sure hope IBM picks
up on this!

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Mark D. Rodriguez
President MDR Consulting, Inc.

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Andrew Raibeck wrote:

Hi Mark,

From the README file:

- VIRTUALNODENAME option is ignored for BA Java GUI (dsmj) client

 If you need to use VIRTUALNODENAME option, please use the Command Line
 Interface client (dsmc).

Regards,

Andy

P.S. I've asked the folks who work on dsmj to treat this condition as a
defect, though at this time I do not know if/when a fix will be made
available.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 2005-10-06
13:42:28:

I have a Linux system running 5.3.0.11 client code.  According to the
TSM documentation (see excerpt below) the virtualnodename option is
supported by dsmj.

/To restore or retrieve files to another workstation, use the
virtualnodename option to specify the node name of the workstation from
which you backed up the files. Virtualnodename cannot be set to the
hostname of the machine. You can use the virtualnodename option when you
start Tivoli Storage Manager or you can add the virtualnodename option
to your client user options file dsm.opt. Use the virtualnodename option
on the dsmj command if you are borrowing another user's machine and you
do not want to update their client user options file.
/
However, if I use it on the command line when I invoke dsmj I get the
following error which appears to be a syntax error when trying to do a
cd command!

/hotrod@athlon:~/mdrfinancial> dsmj -virtualnode=mail
/usr/bin/dsmj: line 125: cd: -v: invalid option
cd: usage: cd [-L|-P] [dir]
Unable to access jarfile dsm.jar
/
I have looked at the file dsmj and it appears that if there are one or
more parameters passed it tries to cd to the first parameter which in
this case causes a problem.  My conclusion is that either dsmj really
does not support virtualnodename and the documentation is wrong or there
is a serious coding error in the dsmj script.

In addition, I tried putting the virtualnodename option in my dsm.opt
file which worked fine with the dsmc command but it still was not picked
up by the dsmj command at all.

I am curious, is this behavior particular to Linux or is this behavior
the same on the other version of dsmj for unix systems.

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Regards,
Mark D. Rodriguez
President MDR Consulting, Inc.

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SAIR Linux and GNU Authorized Center for Education
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