BCI and commands

Products

• CMDB for z/OS
• NetSpy Network Performance
• NetMaster Network Automation
• SOLVE
• NetMaster Network Management for SNA
• NetMaster Network Management for TCP/IP
• NetMaster File Transfer Management
• SOLVE:Operations Automation
• SOLVE:Access Session Management
• SOLVE:FTS

Issue/Introduction

BCI is the Batch Command Interface. With htis feature you can use a Job to log on to the Netmaster Region, issue comamnds and get the replies in your Job Output.
Commands which return the answer line by line like SHOW USERS, SHOW ALLOC work fine with BCI.
Commands like $DSCALL OPT=SHOWALLOC do not work but create this output:
 

TMMAF003 <userid> $USERBCI $USV3270     =N96006 SESSION ESTABLISHED - APPL-ID=NMTEST    
SYSIN    <userid> $USERBCI $USV3270     +EXEC $DSCALL OPT=SHOWALLOC                     
TMMAF003 <userid> Dataset  NMTEST------  CSR                                            
SYSIN    <userid> Dataset  NMTEST------ +BCIDISC                                        
                                        =N96010 SESSION DISCONNECTED - APPL-ID=TMMAF003 

Environment

Release: SLOPFC00200-12.1-NetMaster-File Transfer Management
Component:

Resolution

The BCI interface cannot handle panel displays which a real user see on his terminal. $DSCALL OPT=SHOWALLOC displays a panel to show the content while a OCS-command returns the answer line-by-line.