CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Preface

  1      DEComni Manufacturing Message Specification
    1.1 Manufacturing Message Specification Standard
      1.1.1      MMS Objects
      1.1.2      MMS Services
      1.1.3      MMS Service Provider
      1.1.4      MMS Clients and Servers
      1.1.5      MMS Companion Standards
    1.2 DEComni Manufacturing Message Specification Model
      1.2.1      OmniView
      1.2.2      Omni Directory Services
      1.2.3      Omni Definition Facility on OpenVMS Systems
      1.2.4      Application Program Interface

  2      DEComni Application Program Interface
    2.1 Object Definitions
    2.2 Callable Procedures
    2.3 User Include Files
    2.4 OpenVMS Linking with DEComni Procedures
    2.5 Synchronous and Asynchronous Completion Notification
    2.6 DEC OSF/1 Linking with DEComni Applications
    2.7 DEC OSF/1 Blocking and Nonblocking Completion Notification
    2.8 Input/Output Status Block
    2.9 OpenVMS Control Structure for Asynchronous Completion
    2.10 Receiving Unsolicited Manufacturing Message Specification Indications
    2.11 Obtaining Remote Object Attributes
    2.12 Invoke Identifier Handling
    2.13 OpenVMS Quotas and Privileges
    2.14 DEComni and Manufacturing Message Specification Companion Standards

  3      Programming for the DEComni System
    3.1 Defining Language-Specific Parameters in FORTRAN
    3.2 Initializing DEComni
    3.3 OpenVMS Loading VMD Object Definitions and Obtaining a VMD Handle
    3.4 Creating Definitions at Run Time
      3.4.1      Run-Time Routines
      3.4.2      Supported Definition Classes
      3.4.3      Variable Type Descriptions
        3.4.3.1      Alternate Access
        3.4.3.2      Named Types and Type Specifications
        3.4.3.3      Creating Simple and Complex Variable Definitions
          3.4.3.3.1       Variable_Int32:  Explicit Type
          3.4.3.3.2       Variable_Int32:  Named Type
          3.4.3.3.3       Struct_ABC: Explicit and Named Type
          3.4.3.3.4       Struct_ABC: Alternate Access
          3.4.3.3.5       Array_Int:  Explicit
          3.4.3.3.6       Array_Int:  Alternate Access
        3.4.3.4      Reading and Writing Complex Variables with Full and Partial Access
    3.5 Obtaining Handles for Object Definitions
      3.5.1      Obtaining a Handle by Name
      3.5.2      Obtaining a List of Handles
    3.6 Environment and General Management Services
      3.6.1      Initiating an Association
      3.6.2      Concluding an Association
      3.6.3      Aborting an Association
      3.6.4      Receiving an Association Request
      3.6.5      Responding to an Association Request
      3.6.6      Receiving a Conclude Request
      3.6.7      Responding to a Presentation Conclude Indication
      3.6.8      Receiving an ACSE Conclude Indication
    3.7 Virtual Manufacturing Device Support Services
      3.7.1      Obtaining VMD Status
      3.7.2      Receiving Unsolicited Status
      3.7.3      Obtaining a List of Objects
      3.7.4      Requesting VMD Identification
      3.7.5      Obtaining a List of VMD Capabilities and Abstract Syntaxes
    3.8 Domain Services
      3.8.1      Downloading a Domain
      3.8.2      Uploading a Domain
      3.8.3      Deleting a Domain
      3.8.4      Obtaining the Attributes of a Domain
      3.8.5      Receiving Download and Upload Client Requests
    3.9 Program Invocation Services
      3.9.1      Creating a Program Invocation
      3.9.2      Deleting a Program Invocation
      3.9.3      Starting a Program Invocation
      3.9.4      Stopping a Program Invocation
      3.9.5      Resuming a Program Invocation
      3.9.6      Resetting a Program Invocation
      3.9.7      Killing a Program Invocation
      3.9.8      Getting Program Invocation Attributes
    3.10 Variable Access Services
      3.10.1     Operating on Unnamed Variable Objects
      3.10.2     Operating on Named Variable Objects
      3.10.3     Receiving Client Requests for Variable Access Services
        3.10.3.1     Receiving and Fulfilling a Read Request
        3.10.3.2     Receiving and Fulfilling a Write Request
        3.10.3.3     Receiving an Information Report Indication
    3.11 Remote File Management Services
    3.12 Example Application Code

  4      Procedure Calls

  omni_abort

  omni_accept

  omni_accept_conclude

  omni_accept_connect

  omni_cancel

  omni_conclude

  omni_connect

  omni_create

  omni_define

  omni_delete

  omni_download

  omni_end_list

  omni_exchange_data

  omni_fdelete

  omni_fdir

  omni_fget

  omni_fput

  omni_frename

  omni_get_attribute

  omni_get_definition

  omni_get_fd

  omni_get_handle_by_name

  omni_get_handle_list

  omni_get_indications

  omni_get_message_text

  omni_get_remote_attributes

  omni_get_value

  omni_group_variables

  omni_initialize

  omni_kill

  omni_listen

  omni_load_definitions

  omni_load_domain

  omni_modify_definition

  omni_omni_to_VMS_time

  omni_poll

  omni_print_message

  omni_put_value

  omni_reject

  omni_reject_conclude

  omni_reject_connect

  omni_reset

  omni_resume

  omni_send_value

  omni_set_application_profile

  omni_start

  omni_stop

  omni_store_domain

  omni_terminate

  omni_upload

  A DEComni Message Codes

  B Manufacturing Machine Message Attributes and DEComni Constants
    B.1 Virtual Manufacturing Device Attribute Support
    B.2 DOMAIN Attribute Support
    B.3 PROGRAM INVOCATION Attribute Support
    B.4 VARIABLE Attribute Support

  C Supported Mappings

  Glossary of DEComni Terms