IBM Version 4 manual APIs, Backup Recovery

Chapter

8. Use

of

OS/400

APIs

This

chapter discusses the various

groups

of

OS/400

APIs and

how

the

use

to you. Some APIs are discussed as

a group,

similar

to

the par

System

API

Reference, while others are

discussed

individually.

The

API discussions in this chapter

are

presented

in the

same

orde

System

API

Reference.

Backup

and Recovery

APIs

Use of the backup and recovery APIs is described as follows:

ŸOperational-Assistant Backup APIs

The APIs

for

Operational

Assistant backup

have

been

provided

to

g

users

an

interface

into

the Operational-Assistant backup setup funct

having to go through the

normal

displays.

One

possible

use

of

the

would be to change the

way the backup runs from one

week

to

th

example,

the

user

could

write a CL program that could

run

on

thos

which

holidays occur to

change

the backup options

to

skip

the

ba

certain day. This CL program	could	be submitted to	run	the week
to change the backup options	to skip the backup on		the	holiday,
submitted to run again after	that week to set the options back
APIs could also be used to	retrieve backup history about certai
folders, and so forth, in order		to better tailor	the	backups to
cient backups.

ŸRetrieve Device Capabilities (QTARDCAP) API

This API is useful for a tape management system. The API returns about what capabilities your tape devices support.

Ÿ

Save

Object

List (QSRSAVO)

API

This

API

is

useful

to get a level of

granularity

from

your save

you

cannot

get

by

using the Save Object (SAVOBJ) command. The API

you

to

associate

specific object names with specific object ty

saving the cross-product of all object

names and

object

types ent

command.

Ÿ

List

Save

File

(QSRLSAVF) API

This

API

lists

the

contents of

a save

file into a user space. Th

those

who

develop

backup

and

recovery

applications.

Client Support	APIs
	The client support				APIs include the client	software	management and		con
	APIs	and	exit	programs.
	The client software management and configuration section provides							APIs
	remove, refresh, and update client information on the AS/400 database
	information		stored at the client. The client			software	management	databa
	are affected by these APIs. For information about						these formats,		s
	about	client inventory management Simplein theNetwork				Management	Protocol
	(SNMP) Support book, SC41-5412. The exit programs notify you when these
	functions		have	been	completed.
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