API object types

You can use the CICS® Configuration Manager API to create, read, update, and delete records stored in various data sets:

Rather than accessing these records directly, CICS Configuration Manager clients use the API to exchange XML with the server, and the server accesses the data sets.

The API represents each record type as an object type, specified in the <ObjType> element of an API command. The object type determines the elements allowed in <ObjectData> to represent the record data, and the elements allowed in <ObjectCriteria> to select an object.

Figure 1. The CICS Configuration Manager API represents record data as XML elements