smcli - z/VM System Management API command line utilit

smcli is a bash script that provides a command line interface to the z/VM System Management API. Both TCP/IP and IUCV transport mechanisms are supported as well as 113 of the 114 functions at the z/VM 6.1 level. (Check_Authorization doesn't follow the same API as the rest.)

I needed a few of the SMAPI functions for a project, but once I started, I couldn't stop and it soon became a huge educational exercise as I learned a lot of new bash scripting techniques.

I also wanted to see if I could do most of it in bash and not rely on too many external programs. I was able to get away with only using 5 external programs and 2 of those could even be implemented in the script, but I left them for speed. The 5th is the IUCV helper utility embedded in the script (build it using "smcli smiucv").

Download smcli-11.048a:

smcli-11.048a.gz

Change History:

Date	Change
2011-02-17	Added some brief usage comments
2011-02-11	First release