Chapter 2: Designing an RSP

Using RSP commands

This section is a brief introduction to RSP commands. In addition to reading this introductory material, you should review each command in detail before continuing with the next section, “Reviewing sample RSPs.” See Appendix A, “RSP Commands” for detailed information about each command.

Use the RSP commands to:

Communicate message and status information to Open ServerConnect and the client application
Manage COMMITs and ROLLBACKs
Manage data pipes and exchange data with Open ServerConnect

The following table summarizes the RSP commands and their functions.

**Table 2-1: RSP commands and functions**
This command:	Performs this function:	See
CLOSPIPE	Closes the data pipe	CLOSPIPE
COMMIT	Commits a unit of work	COMMIT
GETPIPE	Reads a record from the data pipe	GETPIPE
MESSAGE	Sends a message to the client application	MESSAGE
OPENPIPE	Opens the data pipe	OPENPIPE
PUTPIPE	Writes a record to the data pipe	PUTPIPE
ROLLBACK	Rolls back a unit of work	ROLLBACK
RPDONE	Ends processing for an RSP initiated using TRS	RPDONE
RPSETUP	Initializes an RSP	RPSETUP
STATUS	Indicates the success or failure of processing	STATUS

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