Dynamic Screen Manager Bindable APIs

The dynamic screen manager (DSM) bindable APIs are a set of screen I/O interfaces that provide a dynamic way to create and manage display screens for the ILE high-level languages.

The DSM APIs fall into the following functional groups:

Low-level services

The low-level services APIs provide a direct interface to the 5250 data stream commands. The APIs are used to query and manipulate the state of the display screen; to create, query, and manipulate input and command buffers that interact with the display screen; and to define fields and write data to the display screen.
Window services

The window services APIs are used to create, delete, move, and resize windows; and to manage multiple windows concurrently during a session.
Session services

The session services APIs provide a general paging interface that can be used to create, query, and manipulate sessions; and to perform input and output operations to sessions.

For information about the DSM bindable APIs, see the API topic collection under the Programming category of the IBM® i Information Center.