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Current version and documentation ships with systemd service file example.
It's a bit defective though, you'll have to tweak the locale so it backs up all files in a mixed-locale environment. We do the following in order to get the locale bit right, and also get the log file in a sane place:
[Service]
Type=forking
GuessMainPID=no
# Place dsmcad log file(s) in /var/log/
Environment="DSM_LOG=/var/log"
# Force en_US locale which is 8bit clean. dsmc parses filenames using locale
# aware functions, so using the default system UTF-8 locale barfs on non-utf8
# names!
Environment="LANG=en_US" "LC_ALL=en_US"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/dsmcad
Restart=on-failure
Note that this depends on locale-gen en_US having been run. This can be automated by adding an ExecStartPre= directive.
This is a small change / effort by IBM development that would pay big dividends to all the customers deploying the TSM client on Linux. Please accelerate this implementation or else provide a link to download the necessary support files separately from the RPM distribution.
Thanks.
This request may not be delivered within the release currently under development, but the theme is aligned with the current multi-year strategy. IBM may consider and evaluate any RFE Community feedback for this request through activities such as voting. IBM will update this request in the future.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Tivoli
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family