Admin Command Line Output Formats

Resolving The Problem

The Tivoli Storage Manager Admin command has a displaymode option that can be used to display output in one of two formats, list or table, regardless of the screen size or amount of data the command outputs. Using the -displaymode=list will output the data with each field on a single line. Using the -displaymode=table format will output the data in a table.

By default, on a standard 80 column screen output from a QUERY VOLUME command is output in table format:



If the QUERY VOLUME command is used from an Admin client started with a -displaymode=list option (DSMADMC -DISPLAYMODE=LIST), the output would look like:


Volume Name: 15FA1E
Storage Pool Name: 3570POOL
Device Class Name: 3570
Estimated Capacity (MB): 10,000.0
Pct Util: 3.0
Volume Status: Filling

Volume Name: 15FA44
Storage Pool Name: TAPECOPY
Device Class Name: 3570
Estimated Capacity (MB): 10,000.0
Pct Util: 14.2
Volume Status: Filling

Volume Name: 15FA4B
Storage Pool Name: 3570POOL
Device Class Name: 3570
Estimated Capacity (MB): 10,407.4
Pct Util: 50.9
Volume Status: Filling

Volume Name: 15FD05
Storage Pool Name: 3570POOL
Device Class Name: 3570
Estimated Capacity (MB): 10,000.0
Pct Util: 0.0
Volume Status: Filling

Volume Name: 15FD0F
Storage Pool Name: 3570POOL
Device Class Name: 3570
Estimated Capacity (MB): 10,000.0
Pct Util: 0.0
Volume Status: Filling

Volume Name: 15FD11
Storage Pool Name: 3570POOL
Device Class Name: 3570
Estimated Capacity (MB): 10,000.0
Pct Util: 2.3
Volume Status: Filling