We are current running a TSM server under OS/390, with most of the management and monitoring functions performed by NetView and batch jobs. We expect to move the server to AIX or mainframe Linux by the end of the year. We are leaning toward managing the new server with a Perl script that reads output piped from a dsmadmc command with the -consolemode option. When we test this with an HP-UX administrative client and the current server, we find that dsmadmc does not split messages into multiple lines when its standard output is a pipe. Can we count on the same being true with the TSM server and the administrative client both running under AIX or both running under mainframe Linux?
