IBM Tivoli Storage Manager HSM for Windows, Version 7.1

HSM for Windows commands

The HSM for Windows client has several commands you can run from a Command Prompt window. With these commands, you can do most of the tasks that you can do with the GUI.

Table 1 summarizes the HSM commands.

Table 1. HSM for Windows client Command Prompt window commands
Command	Description
dsmclc.exe	Use this command to run a migration job from the Command Prompt window. You can also list files and file spaces, and set the level of information that is saved in log, trace, and list files.
dsminfo.exe	Use this command to list various settings of your installation. List the version of libraries, actual log level settings, the operating system version, and disk information.
dsmfileinfo.exe	Use this command to list attributes of migrated and non-migrated files.
dsmfind.exe	Use this command to list files that are eligible by a job file or that correspond to a pattern.
dsmhsmclc.exe	Use this command to manage reconciliation and threshold migration. You can also set the level of information that is saved in log, trace, and list files.
dsmmove.exe	Use this command to move stub files to another location. If the other location is managed by a different Tivoli® Storage Manager server, the migrated file data is moved to the new Tivoli Storage Manager server.
dsmquota.exe	Use this command to display user and group quotas or to reset the quota recall counter for one or more users.
dsmtool.exe	Use this command to display the quantity, size, and expiration period of migrated objects in Tivoli Storage Manager storage.

Entering command parameters

Case sensitivity: Command options are not case-sensitive. You can type them in uppercase or lowercase.
Minimum abbreviation: In the syntax diagrams, the minimum abbreviation of a command option is printed in uppercase. For example, if the syntax diagram includes the option -UNCONFIGUREReconcile, the minimum abbreviation is UNCONFIGURER.

Wait for a command to finish before entering that command again

Do not enter a command when an instance of that command is running, or you get the following error message:

Could not open log file. 
Exiting.

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