Managing Link3270 bridge resources

You can use the following commands and interfaces to obtain information about the Link3270 bridge environment and the bridge facility:

Note:
The BRIDGE option of the ASSIGN command returns the name of the transaction that issued the Link3270 command. It returns blanks if the transaction is not run in a bridge environment.

INQUIRE/SET AUTOINSTALL with the Link3270 bridge

You can use the AIBRIDGE option of the INQUIRE AUTOINSTALL command and CEMT INQUIRE AUTOINSTALL to indicate whether the autoinstall URM is called when bridge facilities are allocated. You can change this setting using the SET AUTOINSTALL command and CEMT SET AUTOINSTALL.

INQUIRE/SET BRFACILITY with the Link3270 bridge

You can use the INQUIRE BRFACILITY command and CEMT INQUIRE BRFACILITY to return the following information about a bridge facility:

You can change the status setting of the bridge facility to RELEASED using the SET BRFACILITY command and CEMT SET BRFACILITY.

INQUIRE TASK with the Link3270 bridge

You can use the BRFACILITY option of the INQUIRE TASK command and CEMT INQUIRE TASK to return an 8-byte field containing the facilitytoken for the bridge facility in use by the task.

Note:
The BRIDGE and IDENTIFIER options return information about the START BREXIT bridge mechanism, and are not used with Link3270.

INQUIRE/SET TRACETYPE with the Link3270 bridge

You can use the INQUIRE TRACETYPE command to indicate whether tracing is enabled for the bridge (BR) and partner (PT) domains. You can change this setting using the SET TRACETYPE command .

INQUIRE TRANSACTION with the Link3270 bridge

You can use the FACILITYLIKE option of the INQUIRE TRANSACTION command and CEMT INQUIRE TRANSACTION to return the 4-character name of the terminal defined by the FACILITYLIKE parameter of the PROFILE associated with the named transaction resource definition. If FACILITYLIKE is not defined, blanks are returned.

Note:
The BREXIT option returns information about the START BREXIT bridge mechanism, and is not used with Link3270.

XPI commands for the Link3270 bridge

You can use the INQUIRE_CONTEXT function of the DFHBRIQX call to return the following information:

See the CICS® Customization Guide for full details of the INQUIRE-CONTEXT interface.

Related concepts
The Link3270 bridge mechanism
The bridge facility
Related tasks
Defining Link3270 SIT parameters
Using Link3270 session mode
Using Link3270 bridge load balancing
Writing the Link3270 client
Related reference
Link3270 message formats
Link3270 diagnostics
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