YAZ-CLIENT(1)

NAME
yaz-client - Z39.50 client for implementors

SYNOPSIS
yaz-client [ -m filename ] [ -a filename ] [ -c filename ] [ -p addr ] [ -u auth ] [ -k size ] [ addr ] yaz-client-ssl [ option ... ] [ addr ]

DESCRIPTION

yaz-client is a Z39.50 client (origin) with a simple command line interface that allows you to test behavior and performance of Z39.50 servers (targets).

yaz-client-ssl is identical to yaz-client except that it supports SSL transport.

If the addr is specified, the client creates a connection to the Z39.50 target at the address.

OPTIONS

-m filename
    If specified, retrieved MARC (ISO2709) records will be appended to the file given.

-a filename
    If specified, logging of protocol packages will be appended file given. The special filename - (dash) denotes standard output.

-u auth
    If specified, the auth string will be used for authentication.

-c filename
    If specified, CCL configuration will be read from the file given.

-p addr
    If specified, the client will use the proxy at the address given.

COMMANDS

The YAZ client accepts the following commands.

open zurl
    Opens a connection to a server. The syntax for zurl is the same as described above for connecting from the command line. Syntax: [(tcp|ssl|unix)':']host [:port][/base>]

quit
    Ends YAZ client

f query
    Sends a Search Request using the query given.

delete setname
    Deletes result set with name setname on the server.

base base1 base2 ...
    Sets the name(s) of the database(s) to search. One or more databases may be specified separated by blanks. This commands overrides the database given in zurl.

show  [start[+number]]
    Fetches records by sending a Present Request from the start position given by start a number of records given by number. If start is not given, then the client will fetch from position of the last retrieved record plus 1. If number is not given, then one record will be fetched at a time.

scan term
    Scans database index for a term. The syntax resembles the syntax for find. If you want to scan for the word water you could write
        scan water

    but if you want to scan only in, say the title field, you would write
        scan @attr 1=4 water

sort sortspecs
    Sorts a result set. The sort command takes a sequence of sort specifications. A sort specification holds a field (sort criteria) and is followed by flags. If the sort criteria includes = it is assumed that the sort SortKey is of type sortAttributes using Bib-1. The integer before = is the attribute type and the integer following = is the attribute value. If no = is in the SortKey it is treated as a sortfield-type of type InternationalString. Flags observed are: s for case sensitive, i for case insensitive, < for sort ascending and > for sort descending.

sort+
    Same as sort but stores the sorted result set in a new result set.

authentication openauth
    Sets up a authentication string if a server requires authentication (v2 OpenStyle). The authentication string is first sent to the server when the open command is issued and the Z39.50 Initialize Request is sent, so this command must be used before open in order to be effective. A common convention for the authopen string is that the username - and password is separated by a slash, e.g. myusername/mysecret.

lslb n
    Sets the limit for when no records should be returned together with the search result. See the Z39.50 standard
     <URL:http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/markup/04.html#3.2.2.1.6> for more details.

ssub n
    Sets the limit for when all records should be returned with the search result. See the Z39.50 standard
     <URL:http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/markup/04.html#3.2.2.1.6> for more details.

mspn n
    Sets the number of records should be returned if the number of records in the result set is between the values of lslb and ssub. See the Z39.50 standard
     <URL:http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/markup/04.html#3.2.2.1.6> for more details.

status
    Displays the values of lslb, ssub and mspn.

setname
    Switches named result sets on and off. Default is on.

cancel
    Sends a Trigger Resource Control Request to the target.

format oid
    Sets the preferred transfer syntax for retrieved records. yaz-client supports all the record syntaxes that currently are registered. See Z39.50 Standard
     <URL:http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/defns/oids.html#5> for more details. Commonly used records syntaxes include usmarc, sutrs, grs1 and xml.

elements e
    Sets the element set name for the records. Many targets support element sets are B (for brief) and F (for full).

close
    Sends a Z39.50 Close APDU and closes connection with the peer

querytype type
    Sets the query type as used by command find. The following is supported: prefix for Prefix Query Notation (Type-1 Query); ccl for CCL search (Type-2 Query), cql for CQL or ccl2rpn for CCL to RPN conversion (Type-1 Query).

attributeset set
    Sets attribute set OID for prefix queries (RPN, Type-1).

refid id
    Sets reference ID for Z39.50 Request(s).

itemorder type no
    Sends an Item Order Request using the ILL External. type is either 1 or 2 which corresponds to ILL-Profile 1 and 2 respectively. The no is the Result Set position of the record to be ordered.

update
    Sends Item Update Request. This command sends a "minimal" PDU Update to the target supplying the last received record from the target. If no record has been received from the target this command is ignored and nothing is sent to the target.

. filename
    Executes list of commands from file filename, just like source on most UNIX shells.

! args
    Executes command args in subshell using the system call.

push_commande command
    The push_command takes another command as its argument. That command is then added to the history information (so you can retrieve it later). The command itself is not executed. This command only works if you have GNU readline/history enabled.

set_apdufile filename
    Sets that APDU should be logged to file filename. This command does the thing as option -a.

set_marcdump filename
    Specifies that all retrieved records should be appended ot file filename. This command does the thing as option -m.

set_cclfields filename
    Specifies that CCL fields should be read from file file filename. This command does the thing as option -c.

register_oid name class OID
    This command allows you to register your own object identifier - so that instead of entering a long dot-notation you can use a short name instead. The name is your name for the OID, class is the class, and OID is the raw OID in dot notation. Class is one appctx, absyn, attet, transyn, diagset, recsyn, resform, accform, extserv, userinfo, elemspec, varset, schema, tagset, general. If you're in doubt use the general class.

FILES

yaz-<version>/client/client.c

SEE ALSO

yaz(7)

Section "The YAZ Client" in the YAZ manual.

Section "Prefix Query Format" in the YAZ manual.

Section "Common Command Language" in the YAZ manual.