SCF Reference Manual for J-Series and H-Series RVUs

SCF Reference Manual for J-Series and H-Series RVUs—529649-003
Glossary-1
Glossary
action. An operation that can be performed on a selected resource.
ADAPTER object type. The Subsystem Control Facility (SCF) object type for all adapters
attached to your system.
ALLPROCESSORS paragraph. A required paragraph in the CONFTEXT configuration file
that contains attributes defining the HP NonStop Kernel operating system image for all
system processors. The ALLPROCESSORS paragraph follows the optional DEFINES
paragraph.
ASSIGN. An HP Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL) command you can use to
associate a file name with a logical file of a program or to assign a physical device to
logical entities that an application uses.
assign message. Within Subsystem Control Facility (SCF), a message created by SCF for
each ASSIGN command. A new process must request its assign message following
receipt of the startup message. All assign messages set by the SCF ASSIGN
command, plus the ones read from the HP Tandem Advanced Command Language
(TACL) command interpreter, are passed to the new process.
assumed object. The object type or object name specified by a Subsystem Control Facility
(SCF) ASSUME command. If an ASSUME command has been used to establish a
default object type and fully qualified default object name, and if that object type and
object name together refer to a valid object, object-spec can be omitted entirely
from an SCF command, and the command is applied to the object known as the
assumed object.
attribute. (1) For the Subsystem Control Facility (SCF), a characteristic of an entity. For
example, two attributes of a process might be its program file and its user ID. An
attribute is sometimes called a modifier. (2) In OSM client interfaces, a data item
associated with a system or cluster resource. All attributes can be viewed, and some
can be modified.
bit-synchronous. A type of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Layer-2 protocol that uses
synchronous transmission but does not require a character code to define terminal and
line control sequences.
CLIP. See communications line interface processor (CLIP).
command. A demand for action by or information from a subsystem or the operation
demanded by an operator or application. A command is typically conveyed as an
interprocess message from an application to a subsystem.
command file. An EDIT file that contains a series of commands and serves as a source of
command input.