HP-UX SNAplus2 MS Programmer's Guide

Management Services Verbs

REGISTER_MS_APPLICATION

Chapter 360

A name identifying this application. An application can

names. The name has the following requirements:

• It cannot match the name used by any other

application that is currently registered as an MS

application.

• It cannot be either NODE or UNIX, which are

reserved for use by SNAplus2 components.

• It must be eight characters long; pad on the right

with EBCDIC space characters (0x40) if necessary.

• It can be one of the following:

— An EBCDIC string, using type-1134 characters

(uppercase A–Z and numerals 0–9)

— One of the MS Discipline-Speciﬁc Application

Programs speciﬁed in an appendix of IBM

Systems Network Architecture: Management

Services Reference

ms_category

If the application needs to obtain the name of its focal

point for a particular MS category, specify the category

name here. If the application does not need to obtain

focal point information, set this parameter to eight

binary zeros. The application can register more than

once for different MS category names.

The MS category name can be one of the following:

• A user-deﬁned category name, an 8-byte EBCDIC

string using type-1134 characters (uppercase A–Z

and numerals 0–9)

• One of the category names speciﬁed in the MS

Discipline-Speciﬁc Application Programs table of

an appendix of IBM Systems Network Architecture:

Management Services Reference

Names of either type should be padded to eight bytes

with trailing space (0x40) characters if necessary.