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Application Programming Interface Commands

Some of the CA VM:Secure commands are also application programming interface (API) commands. API commands simplify application and EXEC creation that use CA VM:Secure features. Instead of prompting for responses, these commands let you provide all the information about the command itself.

The following commands can be used as API commands in application programs or EXECs:

• ADDENTRY
• ADDMDISK
• CHGMDISK
• DELENTRY
• DELETE
• DELMDISK
• DUPMDISK
• ENROLL
• GETENTRY
• LOCK
• MODIFY
• REPENTRY
• SCAN
• TAG
• UNLOCK

Because you can use these commands directly (interactively) or add them to executable functions, their results, as described in this chapter, vary predictably. This is true particularly of results based on default or assumed values, because the default or assumed values are always those of the user ID that submits the command for processing. For example, if you direct the output of a command to the virtual reader when you enter a command directly at your terminal, the output is sent to your own virtual reader; however, if you direct the output of a command to the virtual reader when you put this command in a program, the output is sent to the virtual reader of the user ID that submitted the program for execution.