Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Programming Manual

About This Manual
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The Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Programming Manual provides
subsystem-specific information about the management programming interfaces to the
Tandem DNS subsystem. These interfaces are based on the Subsystem Programmatic
Interface (SPI) and the Event Management Service (EMS). They allow applications to
send commands to, and monitor events reported by, the DNS subsystem.
The manual serves as both a reference manual and a programmer’s guide. It does the
following:
Explains the architecture of the DNS subsystem and how a management
application fits into that architecture
Explains how to start the DNS subsystem so that a management application can
operate
Provides management programming considerations for DNS
Gives a complete reference to the contents of all tokens, token and field values,
commands, responses, event messages, and error lists defined by DNS
Who Should Read This
Manual?
You should read this manual if you are an experienced application programmer in one
of the following categories:
A TAL, C, or COBOL85 programmer writing applications that control or monitor
the DNS subsystem
A TACL user writing macros or routines that control or monitor the DNS
subsystem
To use this manual effectively, you should be familiar with the following subjects:
Basic Tandem system architecture
Programming for the Tandem Guardian 90 operating system
Programming in the Tandem Transaction Application Language (TAL), COBOL85,
TACL, or C
Declarations written in the Tandem Data Definition Language (DDL), as described
in the “Overview of DDL for SPI” appendix in the Distributed Systems Management
(DSM) Programming Manual
The Tandem Distributed Systems Management (DSM) facilities
The components of DNS, the tasks necessary for managing the DNS subsystem,
and its interactive interface described in the Distributed Name Service (DNS)
Management Operations Manual
The tasks necessary for managing the DNS subsystem
Prerequisite reading is outlined in “What Related Publications Are Available?” later in
this preface.