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command will be passed directly to the S-HMC for immediate execution. The return code of the DS CLI program corresponds to the return code of the command it executed. This mode can be used for scripting.

￿Interactive mode: You start the DS CLI program on your host. It provides you with a shell environment that allows you to enter commands and send them to the S-HMC for immediate execution.

There also is a section in this book describing the usage of the DS CLI, including some examples (see Chapter 11, “DS CLI” on page 231).

The DS8000 Command-Line Interface User’s Guide, SC26-7625, contains a complete command reference.

15.5 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

The IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) is an open storage management solution that helps to reduce the effort of managing complex storage infrastructures, to increase storage capacity utilization, and to improve administrative efficiency. It is designed to enable an agile storage infrastructure that can respond to on-demand storage needs.

Figure 15-1 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

TPC is the integration point for storage and fabric management, and replication, as depicted in Figure 15-1.It provides a launchpad for the following IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family and Tivoli products:

￿IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager

￿IBM Tivoli SAN Manager

￿IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

￿IBM TotalStorage Multiple Device Manager

These products allow for the management of data through its life cycle, device configuration, performance, replication, storage network fabric, data backup, data availability, and data recovery, as well as enterprise policies for managing host, application, database, and file system data.

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