You can create, add, change, retrieve, display, delete, and remove objects and object classes with ODM. You enter ODM commands on the command line.
You can put ODM subroutines in a C language program to handle objects and object classes. An ODM subroutine returns a value of -1 if the subroutine is unsuccessful. The specific error diagnostic is returned as the odmerrno external variable (defined in the odmi.h include file). ODM error-diagnostic constants are also included in the odmi.h include file.
Note: If the application is linking statically, use option -binitfini:__odm_initfini_init:__odm_initfini_fini.
| odmadd | Adds objects to an object class. The odmadd command takes an ASCII stanza file as input and populates object classes with objects found in the stanza file. |
| odmchange | Changes specific objects in a specified object class. |
| odmcreate | Creates empty object classes. The odmcreate command takes an ASCII file describing object classes as input and produces C language .h and .c files to be used by the application accessing objects in those object classes. |
| odmdelete | Removes objects from an object class. |
| odmdrop | Removes an entire object class. |
| odmget | Retrieves objects from object classes and puts the object information into odmadd command format. |
| odmshow | Displays the description of an object class. The odmshow command takes an object class name as input and puts the object class information into odmcreate command format. |
| odm_add_obj | Adds a new object to the object class. |
| odm_change_obj | Changes the contents of an object. |
| odm_close_class | Closes an object class. |
| odm_create_class | Creates an empty object class. |
| odm_err_msg | Retrieves a message string. |
| odm_free_list | Frees memory allocated for the odm_get_list subroutine. |
| odm_get_by_id | Retrieves an object by specifying its ID. |
| odm_get_first | Retrieves the first object that matches the specified criteria in an object class. |
| odm_get_list | Retrieves a list of objects that match the specified criteria in an object class. |
| odm_get_next | Retrieves the next object that matches the specified criteria in an object class. |
| odm_get_obj | Retrieves an object that matches the specified criteria from an object class. |
| odm_initialize | Initializes an ODM session. |
| odm_lock | Locks an object class or group of classes. |
| odm_mount_class | Retrieves the class symbol structure for the specified object class. |
| odm_open_class | Opens an object class. |
| odm_rm_by_id | Removes an object by specifying its ID. |
| odm_rm_obj | Removes all objects that match the specified criteria from the object class. |
| odm_run_method | Invokes a method for the specified object. |
| odm_rm_class | Removes an object class. |
| odm_set_path | Sets the default path for locating object classes. |
| odm_unlock | Unlocks an object class or group of classes. |
| odm_terminate | Ends an ODM session. |
Object Data Manager (ODM) Overview for Programmers.
ODM Error Codes in AIX Version 4.3 Technical Reference.