-----Gary Lee wrote: -----

>We are now going to implement nearly all of the drm functionality.
>We have approximately 125 clients mostly flavors of windows.
>
>Does anyone have a resonably automated way of entering the machine
>characteristics and recovery instructions for these?
>It appears to me that they must be entered one line at a time via the
>command line.

The TSM server code ships with a sample Awk script for converting
a text file into a TSM macro containing the commands needed to
put the text file contents into the TSM database as machine
characteristics. The script is named machchar.awk.smp, and is in
the same directory as the server binary.