AM3270 Management Programming Manual

PREFACE
In the Tandem environment, AM3270 provides application programs
with the ability to communicate with IBM 3270-family devices.
This manual provides subsystem-specific information for applica-
tion programmers using the management-programming interfaces
to manage the AM3270 subsystem. The management-programming
interfaces are based on the Subsystem Programmatic Interface
(SPI). This manual describes the control-and-inquiry interface
and the Event Management Service (EMS) interface available to an
application program for subsystem-management purposes.
This manual is intended for application programmers in one of the
following categories:
• TAL, COBOL85, and C programmers who are writing management
applications that communicate with the AM3270 subsystem.
• TACL users who are writing macros and routines to perform
management functions on the AM3270 subsystem.
This manual serves as a reference manual for the development of
management applications. The seven sections and two appendixes
of this manual contain information as follows:
• Section 1 introduces the AM3270 subsystem and the objects
it controls. It also describes the required management
functions, the relationship of the subsystem to other
subsystems, and the architecture of the AM3270 subsystem.
• Section 2 describes management programming. This section
describes the purpose of management programming and how
applications fit into the Distributed Systems Management
(DSM) architecture. It also contains tables of AM3270
programmatic commands and a comparison of programmatic and
operator commands.
• Section 3 describes the elements of SPI messages.
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