Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.......................................................................8
Overview....................................................................................................................................9
Scope and Audience.................................................................................................................9
Manual Organization................................................................................................................9
Documentation Admonishments............................................................................................9
Customer Care Center............................................................................................................10
Emergency Response..............................................................................................................12
Related Publications...............................................................................................................13
Documentation Availability, Packaging, and Updates.....................................................13
Locate Product Documentation on the Customer Support Site.......................................13
Chapter 2: Functional Description..................................................15
General Description................................................................................................................16
System Architecture................................................................................................................21
Provisioning Database Interface Description......................................................................24
Socket Based Connection...........................................................................................25
String-Based Messages...............................................................................................25
Security.........................................................................................................................25
Transaction-Oriented API..........................................................................................27
Batch-Oriented/Bulk Load........................................................................................28
Command Atomicity..................................................................................................28
Provisioning Ranges of Subscriber Numbers.........................................................28
Transparency of Redundant Systems.......................................................................30
Logs ..............................................................................................................................30
Crash Recovery ...........................................................................................................30
Request IDs .................................................................................................................31
Multiple Session Connectivity .................................................................................31
Request Queue Management ...................................................................................31
Interface Configuration and Installation ................................................................32
File Formats..............................................................................................................................32
Debug Log....................................................................................................................32
Import/Export Files....................................................................................................32
Chapter 3: PDBI Request/Response Messages.............................47
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