This appendix contains Programming Interface information for the interface that ADSM provides to external media management programs. To use the interface, you must first define an EXTERNAL library. For information on this library type, see "External Libraries".
The interface consists of request description strings that ADSM sends and response strings that the external program sends.
The details of the request types and the required processing are described in the sections that follow. The request types are:
The responses can be right-padded with any number of white-space characters.
The libraryname passed in a request must be returned in the response. The volume specified in an eject request or a query request must be returned in the response. The volume specified in a mount request (except for 'SCRTCH') must be returned in the response. When 'SCRTCH' is specified in a mount request, the actual volume mounted must be returned.