Expand Management Programming Manual

ELEMENTS OF SPI MESSAGES FOR THE EXPAND SUBSYSTEM
Object Types
Object Types
In addition to the object-type header token found in all commands
and responses, some EXPAND response records contain an object-
type token that describes the object the response record relates
to. In the EXPAND subsystem, object types are represented by
symbolic names of the form ZCOM-OBJ- name , where name identifies
the object type. The EXPAND subsystem supports the following
object types:
LINE
NULL
PATH
PROCESS
The kinds of objects the EXPAND subsystem manages are described
in Section 1, "Introduction." The object types supported
by the EXPAND subsystem are described in Section 6, "Common
Definitions."
The GETVERSION command does not require an object type.
Object Names
Most EXPAND commands and responses contain object-name tokens
that, when combined with the object-type information, designate
which objects are to be or were affected by the command.
In the management-programming interface to the EXPAND subsystem,
an object name consists of a dollar sign ($) followed by from one
to seven alphanumeric characters; the first character is always a
letter. An example of a valid object name is "$LN01".
Most EXPAND commands accept up to 30 object names. Object-name
templates and the subordinate names option are not supported.
In responses to EXPAND commands that operate on objects, a
response record always contains response information for the
operation of the command on a single object.
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