OSI/FTAM and OSI/APLMGR SCF Reference Manual

Attributes for Tandem FTAM
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COMNAME
COMNAME
COMNAME identifies the default common name that the OSI manager process uses to
look up, in its MIB, the address of an FTAM initiator or responder process.
You must specify either COMNAME "character-string" or an address (a PSEL,
an SSEL, a TSEL, and an NSAP group) for the initiator or responder process. The
common name value must be enclosed in quotation marks (" ").
It is recommended that you use common names instead of specifying a complete OSI
address because common names are easier to use. If you use common names and an
address component changes, you need only change the address in the OSI/AS
configuration. However, if you specify a complete OSI address in Tandem FTAM and an
address component changes, you must change both the OSI/AS and the Tandem FTAM
configuration.
Relationship to OSI MIB
If you specify COMNAME "character-string", it must match an application
name defined and associated with an OSI address in the OSI manager MIB. The OSI
manager uses this common name to look up the appropriate OSI address as follows:
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For initiators, whenever an application requests an FTAM association without
specifying an OSI address or common name.
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For responders, whenever a subdevice is created. Before you start the responder
process, the common name defined in the associated VFS profile must exist in the
OSI manager MIB (as an application name).
For details on how to add an application name to the OSI manager MIB or to view
application names already defined, see the OSI/AS Configuration and Management
Manual.
Note that SCF does not check for the existence of a matching application name in the
OSI manager MIB; such an error is not detected until run time, when the associated
responder process is started or a connection is initiated through the initiator. For more
information on the common name and how it is used, see the OSI/FTAM Configuration
and Management Manual.
Priority of address Over COMNAME
If both a common name and an address (a PSEL, SSEL, TSEL, and NSAP group) for a
process exist in the APLMGR MIB, both are included in the APS register request sent to
the OSI manager process. When this occurs, the OSI manager process uses the OSI
address—the address components override the common name.
Default: None
Value: Maximum length of this string is 64 characters—alphanumeric
plus the characters ^, _, and -
Objects: PROCESS, PROFILE