Administrator's Reference

DEFINE CLIENTOPT (Define an Option to an Option Set)

Use the DEFINE CLIENTOPT command to add a client option to a specified option set.

Privilege Class

To issue this command, you must have system privilege or unrestricted policy privilege.

Syntax

>>-DEFine CLIENTOpt--optionsetname--optionname--optionvalue----->
 
    .-Force--=--No-------.
>---+--------------------+--+------------------+---------------><
    '-Force--=--+-Yes-+--'  '-SEQnumber--=--n--'
                '-No--'
 

Parameters

optionsetname

Specifies the name of the optionset to be defined. This parameter is required. The maximum length of the name is 64 characters.

optionname

Specifies a valid client option. This parameter is required. The valid options are:

• BOOKS
• CHANGINGRETRIES
• COMPRESSALWAYS
• COMPRESSION
• DIRMC
• DOMAIN
• DOTDIRCHECK
• DSMCDEFAULTCOMMAND
• EXCLUDE
• INCLUDE
• MAXCMDRETRIES
• NWPWFILE
• NWUSER
• QUIET
• RETRYPERIOD
• RUNASSERVICE
• SCHEDMODE
• SCROLLLINES
• SCROLLPROMPT
• SLOWINCREMENTAL
• SUBDIR
• TAPEPROMPT
• TXNBYTELIMIT
• VERBOSE

optionvalue

Specifies the value for the option. This parameter is required. If the option includes more than one value, the values must be within quotation marks.

SEQnumber=n

Specifies a sequence number when an option name is specified more than once. This parameter is optional.

Force=forcevalue

Specifies whether a client user can override an option value. If FORCE=YES, the client cannot override the value. This is ignored for additive options, for example, INCLUDE, EXCLUDE, and DOMAIN. This parameter is optional. The default is NO.

Examples

Task

Add a client option (MAXCMDRETRIES 5) to a client option set named ENG.

Command:

define clientopt eng maxcmdretries 5

Related Commands

Table 34. Commands Related to DEFINE CLIENTOPT

Command	Description
COPY CLOPTSET	Copies an existing client option set.
DEFINE CLOPTSET	Defines a client option set.
DELETE CLIENTOPT	Deletes a client option from a client option set.
DELETE CLOPTSET	Deletes a client option set.
REGISTER NODE	Defines a client to the server and sets options for that user.
QUERY CLOPTSET	Displays information about a client option set.
UPDATE CLIENTOPT	Updates the sequence number of a client option.
UPDATE CLOPTSET	Updates the description of a client option set.
UPDATE NODE	Changes the attributes associated with a client node.