Processing a series of commands from the administrative client

Use the interactive mode to process a series of administrative commands.

About this task

To start an administrative client session in interactive mode, a server session must be available. To ensure the availability of server sessions for both administrative and client node sessions, the interactive mode of the administrative client is disconnected if one or more of the following conditions is true:
  • The server was stopped by using the HALT command.
  • Commands were not issued from the administrative client session for the length of time that is specified with the IDLETIMEOUT server option.
  • The administrative client session was canceled with the CANCEL SESSION command.

Procedure

To start an administrative session in interactive mode, use the following command: dsmadmc

You can use continuation characters when you use interactive mode. For more information, see Using continuation characters to enter long commands.

You can automatically restart your administrative client session by entering another command each time the tsm: servername > prompt appears.

Do not enter a server command with the DSMADMC command. Doing so starts the administrative client in batch, not interactive, mode. For example, do not enter:
dsmadmc server_command