TS/MP Management Programming Manual (G06.24+, H06.03+)

SPI Programming Considerations
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Message Elements for the Pathway Subsystem
SPI (ZSPI) definition file
PWY (ZPWY) definition file
An application that retrieves event messages issued by the Pathway subsystem needs
the definition files:
SPI (ZSPI) definition file
PWY (ZPWY) definition file
EMS (ZEMS) definition file
For example, a management application written in COBOL that sends commands to
and retrieves event messages issued by the Pathway subsystem would copy or load
the definition files:
ZSPIDEF.ZSPICOB
ZSPIDEF.ZPWYCOB
ZSPIDEF.ZEMSCOB
If your application manages subsystems other than Pathway, it also needs the
definition files required by those subsystems. For instance, you might want your
Pathway management application to manage an associated TMF system as well. If
you were writing the COBOL management application mentioned previously and also
wanted to manage a TMF subsystem, you would need an additional definition file:
ZSPIDEF.ZTMFCOB
For information about the SPI, EMS, extended SPI definitions, operating system, and
file-system definitions, see the SPI Programming Manual, the EMS Manual, and the
Guardian Procedure Errors and Messages Manual, respectively. The TS/MP
definitions are described in this manual.
Message Elements for the Pathway Subsystem
These subsections provide subsystem-specific information about elements of TS/MP
commands, responses, and event messages. For general information about these
elements, and for descriptions of elements whose meaning is not subsystem-specific
(such as the subsystem ID), see the SPI Programming Manual.
Commands
Programmatic commands for the Pathway subsystem are identified by command
numbers with symbolic names of the form ZPWY-CMD-name, where name identifies
the command. For example, the name used by management application programs for
the ALTER command is ZPWY-CMD-ALTER. These names represent the values that
can be assigned to the command number header token, ZSPI-TKN-COMMAND.
Note. Symbolic names are given in the DDL format, which is identical to the COBOL format.
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