Asynchronous Terminals and Printer Processes Programming Manual

INTRODUCTION
Communications Management Interface (CMI)
• Examine the configuration and status of the data communication
facilities
CMI can be used to configure, trace, and check the status of
| ATP6100 subdevices. It can only be used to check status for
| TERMPROCESS and SERIALPRINTPROCESS devices.
CMI provides an operator interface to the Communications
Management Process (CMP), which, in turn, provides an interface
to the I/O process.
CMI commands operate on objects, such as lines and subdevices.
For example, the ALTER command changes the values of selected
attributes of objects, and the INFO command displays the current
attribute values of objects. For ATP6100, many communication
parameters that are initially defined at system generation time
can be changed with the ALTER command.
The CMI TRACE command creates files that contain information
| about the communication lines, subdevices, and I/O process. The
| CMI PTRACE command displays the data contained in the trace file.
| However, for ATP6100, use the PTRACE program to format and
display trace file data. The PTRACE program is faster and
provides more features than the CMI PTRACE command.
1-12 November 1987