TS/MP 2.5 System Management Manual

processing can be used for many different kinds of business tasks such as order processing,
inventory control, accounting functions, and banking operations. See also batch processing.
online transaction
processing (OLTP)
application
A set of programs that perform online transaction processing (OLTP) tasks on behalf of the user.
With an OLTP application, many terminal users can update data simultaneously, recording the
changes in the database as they are entered. OLTP applications generally display, check, and
accept input data; manipulate the input data; and perform some type of data-output activity.
Open System
Services (OSS)
An open system environment available for interactive or programmatic use with the Tandem
NonStop Kernel. Processes that run in the OSS environment use the OSS application program
interface; interactive users of the OSS environment use the OSS shell for their command interpreter.
See also Guardian and Guardian environment.
OSS See Open System Services (OSS).
OSS environment The NonStop Kernel Open System Services (OSS) API, tools, and utilities. See also Open System
Services (OSS).
OSS filename A component of an OSS pathname containing any valid characters other than a slash (/) or a
null. See also file name, OSS pathname, and file system (definition 2).
OSS operating
environment
See OSS environment.
OSS pathname The string of characters that uniquely identifies a file within its file system in the OSS environment.
A pathname can be either absolute or relative. See also absolute pathname, relative pathname,
and file system (definition 2).
OSS username A string that uniquely identifies a user within the user database for a node.
overlay area In SCREEN COBOL, an area of a base screen within which an overlay screen can be displayed.
overlay screen In SCREEN COBOL, a screen that is displayed in an overlay area of a base screen. A base
screen can be used with various overlay screens. See also screen and base screen.
Parallel
Transaction
Processing (PTP)
Services for the
CICS API product
The collection of software components (executable program files, data files, and so on) that
support transaction processing and application development for CICS applications in the Guardian
environment on Tandem NonStop systems. See also Customer Information Control System (CICS)
and PTP transaction processing environment.
partially qualified
file name
A Guardian file name in which only the right-hand file-name parts are specified. The remaining
parts of the file name assume default values. See also fully qualified file name.
PATHCOM
The interactive interface to the PATHMON process, through which users enter commands
to configure and manage Pathway applications.
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• The process that provides this interface.
PATHCOM
command file
A file of PATHCOM commands that define and add the PATHMON-controlled objects required
to execute an application. This file can contain all of the commands needed to start a PATHMON
environment.
PATHCOM
command terminal
See command terminal.
PATHCTL See PATHMON configuration file.
Pathmaker product A menu-driven application generator, provided by Tandem, that increases the productivity of
programmers developing Pathway applications. The Pathmaker software generates requestor
programs in SCREEN COBOL and server programs in C or COBOL.
PATHMON
configuration file
A disk file in which a PATHMON process maintains configuration information for the objects
under its control. The name of this file is PATHCTL.
PATHMON
environment
The servers, server classes, TCPs, terminals, SCREEN COBOL programs, and tell messages that
run together under the control of one PATHMON process.
PATHMON log file A file used by a PATHMON process for reporting errors and changes in status.
PATHMON object An object of type PATHMON; that is, a PATHMON process. See also PATHMON process and
PATHMON-controlled object.
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