OSI/MHS SCF Reference Manual

Introduction
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CONFIRM Option
To indicate full wild-carding, use a double asterisk (**). For example, the following
X.121 address matches all legal X.121 names:
X121-ADDR **
It is important to understand the OSI/MHS implementation of the single asterisk and
double asterisk wild-card characters. In all O/R names, including X.121 and numeric
user identifier names, a single asterisk means “not used.” Thus, a single asterisk causes
the O/R name to be ignored in routing decisions. A double asterisk (which is used only
in a fully wild-carded X121-ADDR or NUMERIC-USER-IDENTIFIER field) causes
the fully wild-carded field to be included in routing decisions.
Additional Considerations
These considerations apply when you use partial or full wild-carding:
•
You cannot specify both a wild-carded X121-ADDR and a wild-carded NUMERIC-
USER-IDENTIFIER for the same object.
•
If there are two partially wild-carded routes that match, the message is routed to the
most specified (the one with the longest string of characters). For example, given the
following routes and assuming that other routing criteria match, a message would be
routed to 4938 rather than 493:
X121-ADDR 493*
X121-ADDR 4938*
•
A null value in the X121-ADDR or NUMERIC-USER-IDENTIFIER field of an
incoming message does not qualify as a match for a fully wild-carded X121-ADDR
or NUMERIC-USER-IDENTIFIER O/R name in a ROUTE or APPL object. In this
case, an incoming message must include an explicit, legal O/R name to be routed
properly.
•
You can define up to 200 partially or fully wild-carded X.121 addresses or numeric
user identifiers. You can tell how many partially or fully wild-carded elements you
have by issuing the SCF STATUS SUBSYS command.
CONFIRM Option
The general SCF command CONFIRM allows you to enable or disable the display of a
positive confirmation message upon successful completion of a command. By default,
this option is set to OFF. You can use the command
CONFIRM ON
to cause SCF to display a confirmation message whenever any command, except those
that normally return a display, successfully completes its operation. If you have not set
the CONFIRM option to ON, or if you set it to OFF again, SCF displays only its prompt
on successful completion of non-displaying commands.
SCF always displays error and warning messages, regardless of whether it is displaying
confirmation messages.