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How You Start the Interface

After preparing the application program interface, you can initiate it using the API1SM01 display program by doing any one of the following:

• Specify PGM(API1SM01) on the ISPF menu selection panel to initiate the API1SM01 program as a menu option.
• Place the TSO command ISPEXEC SELECT PGM(API1SM01) in a one-line CLIST to initiate the API1SM01 program.
• If the API1SM01 program is located in a library that contains other TSO commands, then you can initiate it by entering API1SM01 from Option 6.

When you initiate the API1SM01 program, CA MIA displays the retrieval panel shown in the next section. You can use this retrieval panel to identify the devices for which you want information.

Input fields on panels are identified by the ==> notation. You can use the COMMAND input field on either the retrieval panel or the display panel to issue TSO commands.