SNAX/APC Configuration and Management Manual

SCF Commands for SNAX/APC
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Using Wild-Card Characters
Using Wild-Card Characters
Wild-card characters allow several objects of the same object type (except the
PROCESS object type) to be indicated in a command.
The asterisk wild-card character (*) designates zero or more characters. For example, an
INFO command issued against the PTNR-LU object type with * indicated as the object
name returns information on all PTNR-LU objects. If the name used was A*,
information would be returned for all PTNR-LU objects whose names begin with A.
The question mark wild-card character (?) designates a single character. For example,
an INFO command issued against the PTNR-LU object-type with ???W??? indicated as
the object name returns information on all seven-character PTNR-LU names with the
letter W as the fourth character.
Command Security
To ensure a secure environment, SNAX/APC supports two kinds of commands, sensitive
and nonsensitive.
A sensitive command can be issued only by a restricted set of operating system users,
such as the owner of a subsystem process. For SNAX/APC, the sensitive commands are
those that can alter attributes or states of objects. As this kind of action can be
potentially damaging to the process, the use of sensitive commands is restricted, and
security checking for these commands is done by SNAX/APC.
The sensitive commands for SNAX/APC are:
ABORT
ADD
ALTER
DELETE
START
STATS (with the RESET option)
STOP
TRACE
In contrast, a nonsensitive command can be issued by any user or program allowed
access to the target subsystem. For SNAX/APC, the nonsensitive commands are all
those that cannot change objects, as follows:
STOP
†
Stops the operation of an object in an orderly manner.
TRACE Defines and controls the trace environment of specified objects.
VERSION Obtains version and other optional information about the SNAX/APC
subsystem.
†
Wild-card characters allowed (see the next subsection).
Table 8-1. Command Overview (page 2 of 2)
Command Action