Introduction to Pathmaker

How Pathmaker Helps
Introduction to Pathmaker and Pathway
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Application Creation Tasks
Some of the tasks an application developer performs to create a Pathway application
with the Pathmaker product include:
Describing the data that the application will use.
Directing the Pathmaker product to generate SQL database access statements for
inclusion in the server code.
Writing the service code.
Grouping services into servers.
Specifying information about requesters being created and their screens, including
the content of the help screens.
Specifying the components of the IPC messages.
Instructing the Pathmaker product to generate source code and then to compile it.
Initiating the generation of Pathway command files used to test the completed
application.
The Pathmaker product helps in the creation of a Pathway application by:
Generating application source code in a uniform structure for all requesters and
servers to help simplify maintenance and modification.
Producing the program statements specific to Pathway applications (such as
reading the $RECEIVE file), making programming easier for anyone unfamiliar
with Pathway.
Optionally, producing SQL data manipulation statements for individual
NonStop SQL tables.
Providing a central location for most application information.
Creating error-handling code for the most commonly encountered errors.
Producing application code that contains no logic, syntax, or typographical errors.
Without the Pathmaker product, the SCREEN COBOL code, all of the server code, and
the Pathway command files for an application must be created by an application
developer using TEDIT.