When developing your own client interface for CICSĀ® Configuration Manager, you might find it useful to model your API commands on the API commands sent by the ISPF dialog interface that is supplied with CICS Configuration Manager.
To see the XML of the request and response messages while using the CICS Configuration Manager ISPF dialog interface, open the pull-down menu and set XML trace options.
Similarly, to trace the XML sent and received by the batch client program CCVBMAIN, specify the ddname CCVBXML.
This technique can be a valuable shortcut to writing your own API commands. Rather than writing an API command from scratch, start with an existing API command that does something similar. For example: