Don't know if this was mentioned.

You can add additional stanzas in your dsm.sys file to
connect to the server as the (retired) server .
You will need to reset the password for the
clientnode, and admin account for that node at the
Server.
at the command line ;
dsmc -se=retirednodename
give the password
then you can "set access" to give the inusetoday node
access to the retired node's data.
The neat thing is you can break it down to the file
owner and or the filesystem.

Do a dsmc help, and look for "SET ACCESS" in the menu,
it varies thru version levels/releases.


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