Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Programming Manual
DNS Definitions
Common Definitions
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Simple Tokens This subsection describes the simple tokens defined by DNS. Simple tokens appear
only in name-manager responses; DNS does not define simple request tokens.
All tokens appearing in error lists are simple tokens.
ZDNS-TKN-DISPLAYNAME
is a variable-length string token that contains a name formatted for display to
human operators. This token appears only in error lists. See the INFO NAME
command description in Section 6 for further discussion of this token. This token
has the following characteristics:
Token Name: ZDNS-TKN-DISPLAYNAME
Token Type: character (ZSPI-TYP-CHAR)
Token Length: 255 (Variable)
Token Number: 76
ZDNS-TKN-ERRTYPE
is the token returned in error lists. Its value determines the format of the name in
error. This token has the following characteristics:
Token Name: ZDNS-TKN-ERRTYPE
Token Type: 16-BIT INTEGER (ZSPI-TYP-INT)
Token Number: 77
Possible values for ZDNS-TKN-ERRTYPE are listed in Table 4-7.
Table 4-7. ZDNS-TKN-ERRTYPE Possible Values
Values Description
ZDNS-VAL-
SIMPLENAME = 1
The field is a string of length specified by the value of ZDNS-TKN-
ERRLEN.
ZDNS-VAL-
SSTYPENAME = 2
The field contains two eight-character names; the first names a
subsystem-object type, and the second names the subsystem
defining the subsystem-object type.
ZDNS-VAL-DNSFNAME = 3 The field contains a file name in FNAME32 format.
ZDNS-VAL-
SSOBJNAME = 4
The field contains a subsystem-object name; if the field begins with
“\”, it is either a node name or a file name in FNAME32 format.
ZDNS-VAL-
QUALSSOBJNAME = 5
The field contains a 162-character field and a 32-character field; the
first names a subsystem object while the second names the object's
manager. The second field contains spaces if the object has no
manager.
ZDNS-VAL-
QUALDNSNAME = 6
This field is a length specified by the ZDNS-TKN-ERRLEN token and
may be greater than 40; the first 32 bytes contain the name of an
alias, composite, domain, or group, the last 8 bytes contain the
definition node name.
ZDNS-VAL-INT = 7 The field contains a 16-bit integer.
ZDNS-VAL-BOOLEAN = 8 The field is of type ZSPI-TYP-BOOLEAN.
ZDNS-VAL-INT2 = 9 The field contains a 32-bit integer.