Trying to connect to dsmadmc gives me a bunch of dsm.opt file errors...

[Niceman]

I'm trying to establish a shell instance in my script but it's spitting out ANS1036S errors (The option 'option' or the value supplied for it is not valid. It was found in options file 'file-name' at line number: number) for every single line starting with DEVCONFIG in the dsm.opt file. Even running straight from cmd fails with the same issue:

"C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient\dsmadmc.exe" -id=<userid> -pa=<password> -optfile="E:\TSM\TSM01\dsmscript.opt"

This is the content of the dsm file I copied (dsmscript.opt) for testing (I removed tabs and white spaces):

COMMMethod TCPIP
TCPPort 1500
DEVCONFIG devconf.dat
VOLUMEHISTORY volhist.dat
TCPADMINPort 1500
ACTIVELOGSize 131072
ACTIVELOGDirectory F:\TSM\Actlog
ARCHLOGDirectory E:\TSM\Archlog
DEDUPREQUIRESBACKUP YES
MAXSESSION 250
TXNGROUPMAX 65000
EXPINTERVAL 0
REPLBATCHSIZE 32768
REPLSIZETHRESH 32768
DATEFormat 2
DBMEMPERCENT 60
ARCHLOGUSEDTHRESHOLD 90
REORGBEGINTIME 04:00
REORGDURATION 4
ALLOWORGREINDEX YES
DNSLOOKUP NO

What gives?

 

[marclant]

The content of what you pasted on the screen are all options valid in dsmserv.opt, very few of these are valid for dsm.opt.

dsmserv.opt -> option file used by the server when starting
dsm.opt (or other .opt) -> option file used by the clients (dsm.exe, dsmc.exe and dsmadmc.exe)

 

[marclant]

Here's the list of valid client options:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.9/client/c_opt_clioptref.html

So any option you have now that is either reporting an error or is not in this list should be removed. For dsmadmc to work, at the minimum, you need a TCPSERVERADDRESS.

 

[Niceman]

Oh, OK well that makes a lot of sense, thank you!