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ADDRESS NETMAN Host Environment

The ADDRESS NETMAN host environment enables you to open, update, or close records in CA Netman. This REXX-based interface allows CA OPS/MVS rules or OPS/REXX programs to perform CA Netman functions in real time, while an event is actually occurring. The ADDRESS NETMAN host environment uses an Application Programming Interface (API) to issue Machine-Generated Problem Tracking (MGPT) commands. The API allows CA OPS/MVS to manipulate problem records in a CA Netman database, whether CA Netman is running on the same system or a remote system. This feature also forces important information such as job names, message IDs, and message text to be automatically filled in while you are using the interface.

Keep these points in mind when you issue the ADDRESS NETMAN host command:

• The maximum length of an ADDRESS NETMAN host command is 256 characters. Whenever possible, use the MGPT table overrides to automatically fill in field values, providing more room for the values that cannot be overridden.
• ADDRESS NETMAN commands that are issued from a rule, except a TOD or REQ rule, cause CA Netman response messages to be issued as WTOs to the hardcopy log (a message rule may trap these messages). OPS/REXX programs, TOD rules, and REQ rules obtain their CA Netman response messages synchronously in the external data queue.
• The ADDRESS NETMAN interface requires the NETMAN CCI, or NCCI, receiver to be active.

Note: For more information about the NCCI, see the CA Netman Techniques Guide and Systems Programmer Guide. For details about MGPT and the API, you should also see the CA Netman API documentation.