JDBC Type 4 Driver Programmer's Reference for SQL/MX Release 3.2.1

NonStop Technical
Library
The browser-based interface to NonStop computing technical information. NonStop Technical
Library replaces HP Total Information Manager (TIM).
NSK See HP NonStop operating system.
NSKCOM A program management tool for swap space.
O
Object
Management
Group (OMG)
The standards body that defined CORBA.
Object
Serialization
An Oracle procedure that extends the core Java Input/Output classes with support for objects by
supporting the following:
• The encoding of objects, and the objects reachable from them, into a stream of bytes.
• The complementary reconstruction of the object graph from the stream.
Object Serialization is used for lightweight persistence and for communication by means of
sockets or RMI. The default encoding of objects protects private and transient data, and supports
the evolution of the classes. A class can implement its own external encoding and is then solely
responsible for the external format.
Object Transaction
Service (OTS)
The transaction service standard adopted by the OMG and used as the model for JTS.
ODBC See Open Database Connectivity (ODBC).
OLTP See online transaction processing (OLTP).
OMG See Object Management Group (OMG).
online transaction
processing (OLTP)
A method of processing transactions in which entered transactions are immediately applied to
the database. The information in the databases is always current with the state of company and
is readily available to all users through online screens and printed reports. The transactions are
processed while the requester waits, as opposed to queued or batched transactions, which are
processed at a later time. Online transaction processing can be used for many different kinds of
business tasks, such as order processing, inventory control, accounting functions, and banking
operations.
Open Database
Connectivity
(ODBC)
The standard Microsoft product for accessing databases.
Open System
Services (OSS)
An environment available for interactive and programmatic use with the NonStop operating
system. Processes that run in the OSS environment use the OSS API. Interactive users of the OSS
environment use the OSS shell for their command interpreter. Compare to Guardian.
OSS See Open System Services (OSS).
OTS See Object Transaction Service (OTS).
P
package A collection of related classes; for example, JDBC.
Pathsend API The application program interface to a Pathway system that enables a Pathsend process to
communicate with a server process.
Pathsend process A client (requester) process that uses the Pathsend interface to communicate with a server process.
A Pathsend process can be either a standard requester, which initiates application requests, or
a nested server, which is configured as a server class but acts as a requester by making requests
to other servers. Also called a Pathsend requester.
Pathway A group of software tools for developing and monitoring OLTP programs that use the client /
server model. Servers are grouped into server classes to perform the requested processing. On
NonStop systems, this group of tools is packaged as two separate products: TS/MP and
Pathway/TS.
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