Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Programming Manual

EMS Standard Definitions
Common Definitions
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Descriptions of the SPI standard definitions as they apply to all subsystems are given
in the Distributed Systems Management (DSM) Programming Manual. For all but two of
the definitions listed in Table 4-1, the information in that manual suffices to describe
their use by DNS. Subsystem-specific information for those two definitions is given in
the following paragraph.
When used in DNS commands, the header token ZSPI-TKN-SSID has the value
ZDNS-VAL-SSID (the DNS subsystem ID), which identifies the DNS subsystem.
ZDNS-VAL-SSID is actually a set of four values defined as a structure. Its complete
definition is given under “DNS Definitions,” later in this section.
DNS does not support the ZSPI-TKN-RESPONSE-TYPE or the ZSPI-TKN-ALLOW-
TYPE tokens. If either of these tokens is supplied in a DNS request buffer, it must be
supplied with its default value (ZSPI-VAL-ERR-WARN-AND-NORM and ZSPI-VAL-
NORM-ONLY respectively).
EMS Standard
Definitions
Definitions whose names begin with ZEMS are EMS standard definitions. They are
provided in the ZSPIDEF.ZEMSDDL file and in the corresponding files for other
languages.
Table 4-2 lists EMS standard definitions used in event messages issued by the DNS
subsystem. These definitions consist of header tokens and other simple tokens.
Table 4-2. EMS Standard Definitions Used by DNS
Header Tokens Other Simple Tokens
ZEMS-TKN-CONSOLE-PRINT ZEMS-TKN-SUBJECT
ZEMS-TKN-PROC-DESC
ZEMS-TKN-EMPHASIS
ZEMS-TKN-EVENTNUMBER
ZEMS-TKN-GENTIME
Descriptions of the EMS standard definitions as they apply to all subsystems are given
in the Event Management Service (EMS) Manual. The information in that manual
suffices to describe the use of some of the definitions listed in Table 4-2; for others,
additional subsystem-specific considerations discussed next apply.