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Creating a customized client user-options file

If you want to use different options than those specified in the default client user-options file (dsm.opt), you can create your own client user-options file.

About this task

You can set all of the options that can be set in the default user options file. Creating a customized client user-options file (dsm.opt) is an optional task. To create or modify a client user-options file, use the following method:

Procedure

  1. Contact the IBM Spectrum Protect administrator on your workstation to determine the location of the sample client user-options file dsm.opt.smp, and to get the TCP/IP address of the backup server you are connecting to and the port it listens on.
  2. Copy dsm.opt.smp to your home directory as dsm.opt, or a new file name of your choice. Store your client user-options file in any directory to which you have write access.
  3. Set the DSM_CONFIG environment variable to point to your new client user-options file.
  4. Edit your dsm.opt file as appropriate for your system or use the Preferences Editor by selecting Edit > Client Preferences from the backup-archive client GUI.

Results

Once you have created an options file, you can use the following steps to edit your options file from the GUI.

  1. Open the Edit menu and select Client Preferences.
  2. Make any necessary changes, then click OK to save those changes.
Mac OS X operating systemsImportant: For Mac OS X, the system-options file must be a plain text file, encoded as Unicode (UTF-8). By default, TextEdit does not save files as plain text. Select Format > Make PlainText to save the user-options file as a plain text file. Set the Plain Text Encoding drop-down list selection to Unicode (UTF-8). Do not add the .txt extension.