Call the HWIQUERY service to retrieve information about objects managed by the support element (SE) or hardware management console (HMC) related with central processor complexes (CPCs), CPC images (LPARs), capacity records, different types of activation profiles, or user-defined image groups.

For some connection types (HWI_CPC and HWI_IMAGE in particular), grouping multiple attributes together into a single HWIQUERY service call may result in significantly reduced waiting times rather than querying the same number of attributes one at a time. Whenever possible, an application should consolidate its HWIQUERY service calls to query multiple attributes using the same query request.