EMS FastStart Manual

Brief Review of Event Design
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Step 5: Assign Field Name, Type, and
Number to Variables
FastStart uses the data types (see the DSM Programming Manual for more information)
listed in Table 2-1 below.
Assign a Field Number for Each Variable
A field number identifies each separate variable data type. The field number can be any
number from 1 to 9990. You can assign an arbitrary field number, although you may
wish to assign field numbers with some logic for your application. Below is an example
of a field number (bold type):
Table 2-1. Data Types
ZSPI-DDL-INT ZSPI-DDL-CHAR24
ZSPI-DDL-INT2 ZSPI-DDL-CHAR50
ZSPI-DDL-INT4 ZSPI-DDL-CHAR64
ZSPI-DDL-UINT ZSPI-DDL-CHAR128
ZSPI-DDL-ENUM ZSPI-DDL-CHAR254 *
ZSPI-DDL-BOOLEAN ZSPI-DDL-USERID
ZSPI-DDL-CHAR ZSPI-DDL-USERNAME
ZSPI-DDL-CHAR-PAIR ZSPI-DDL-FNAME
ZSPI-DDL-CHAR4 ZSPI-DDL-FNAME32
ZSPI-DDL-CHAR6 ZSPI-DDL-SUBVOL
ZSPI-DDL-CHAR8 ZSPI-DDL-CRTPID
ZSPI-DDL-CHAR16 ZSPI-DDL-DEVICE
ZSPI-DDL-TRANSID ZSPI-DDL-TIMESTAMP
ZSPI-DDL-SSID
*ZSPI-DDL--CHAR254 is defined in EXTRADDL. Refer to Section 4, Preparing the Application
Configuration File, for detailed information.
FIELD-7-NAME ATM-SENSE-STATUS
FIELD-7-TYPE ZSPI-DDL-INT2
FIELD-7-NUMBER 700