COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs (H06.03+)

Glossary
HP COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs—520347-003
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global name
global name. A name that is declared in only one program but that can be referenced from
that program and from any program directly or indirectly contained within that program.
These names can be global names: condition-names, data-names, file-names, record-
names, and some special registers. Compare to local name.
Guardian. An environment available for interactive or programmatic use with the
HP NonStop™ operating system. Processes that run in the Guardian environment
usually use the Guardian system procedure calls as their application program
interface. Interactive users of the Guardian environment usually use the HP Tandem
Advanced Command Language (TACL) or another HP product’s command interpreter.
Compare to Open System Services (OSS).
Guardian environment. The Guardian application program interface (API), tools, and
utilities.
GUARDIAN-ERR. A special register associated with a run unit, which the process updates
each time it executes an input-output statement. The contents of GUARDIAN-ERR is
the value delivered to the COBOL run-time routines by the Guardian operating system
upon its completion of the requested input-output statement.
high-order end. The leftmost character of a string of characters.
high PIN. A process identification number (PIN) that is greater than 255. Compare to low
PIN.
HP COBOL Fast I-O. A fast form of sequential block buffering in which run-time routines
handle the record deblocking.
HP COBOL program. A program written in the HP COBOL language. It can be compiled
with the COBOL85, NMCOBOL, or ECOBOL compiler.
HP NonStop™ operating system. The operating system for HP NonStop systems.
HP NonStop™ Transaction Management Facility (TMF). HP software that provides
transaction protection and database consistency in demanding online transaction
processing (OLTP) and decision-support environments. It gives full protection to
transactions that access distributed SQL/MP,SQL/MX, and Enscribe databases, as well
as recovery capabilities for transactions, online disk volumes, and entire databases.
HP NonStop™ TS/MP. An HP product that provides support functions for online transaction
processing (OLTP) applications on HP NonStop systems. HP NonStop TS/MP consists
of the PATHMON process, the PATHCOM process, the LINKMON process, and the
Pathsend procedures. With HP NonStop Transaction Management Facility (TMF),
NonStop TS/MP forms the foundation for HP open transaction processing services.
HP Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL). The user interface to the NonStop
operating system. TACL is both a command interpreter and a command language.
Users can write programs in TACL that perform complex tasks simply or provide a
consistent user interface across independently programmed applications.