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Advanced Communication Interface

The Advanced Communication Interface can be used to establish a console dialog between an application program and CA Spool.

This dialog is an exact copy of the requests, replies and unsolicited messages exchanged as if a CA Spool console were used. The Advanced Communication Interface thus enables the installation to create its own user‑tailored dialog.

Like all the other Call Interface routines, the Advanced Communication Interface is available in all programming languages in all processing environments.

The Advanced Communication Interface has several types of implementation:

• A simple implementation can be used to send commands to CA Spool and display the response.
• A more sophisticated implementation can involve translating commands or replies into another language or syntax and automatically inserting default values.
• A very complex implementation can completely integrate the dialog into some programmed logic totally transparent to a terminal user.