CMIP flows that relate to separate CMIP operations could flow between the agent application program and the manager application program in any order. The VTAM® topology agent and CMIP services do not attempt to ensure that such CMIP strings, generated as the result of separate operations, are sequenced and delivered based on order of events or processing. For example, a notification that is generated by VTAM after a GET response is built could actually be received by the manager application program before the GET response.

Therefore, the manager application program should not rely on order of receipt as an indication of order of processing at the agent application program. There is no correlation between order of processing by the agent application program and time of receipt by the manager application program.