OSI/AS Management Programming Manual

Programmatic Commands

Introduction

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Management Functions

Provided

The OSI/AS subsystem provides your application with the capability to do the

following:

Add processes, profiles, and entries to an OSI/AS subsystem

Delete processes, profiles, and entries from an OSI/AS subsystem

Change certain characteristics, or attributes, of the subsystem and its processes,

services, profiles, and entries

Obtain information about the current attributes of the subsystem and its processes,

services, profiles, and entries

Obtain a list of the currently defined subsystem objects of a given type or a list of

those subordinate to a specified process

Start and stop OSI manager, TAPS, and TSP processes

Stop a specified TAPS subdevice

Suspend and reactivate OSI manager, TAPS, and TSP processes

Forbid or allow opens of TAPS processes

Obtain information about the opens of a specified TAPS process or subdevice

Obtain current status information about the subsystem and its processes and

subdevices

Obtain information about the product name and release version of the OSI/AS

subsystem and its components

Obtain statistics about the subsystem and its processes, services, and subdevices

Reinitialize the counters used to collect statistics information for the subsystem,

processes, services, and subdevices

Start and stop tracing of subsystem process activity

Commands OSI/AS commands are available in interactive form (through the Subsystem Control

Facility, SCF) and in programmatic form (as Subsystem Programmatic Interface, or

SPI, messages). Table 1-1 shows the correspondence between the interactive SCF

commands and the programmatic commands sent by management applications.

To make the contrast between the two kinds of commands clear, the table gives the

programmatic command names and object names in the full form you must use in

programs. Later in this manual, in text discussions and in the headings for the

command descriptions, the commands and object types appear in a shortened form

(without the ZCOM-CMD- and ZCOM-OBJ- prefixes).