TS/MP System Management Manual (H06.05+, J06.03+)

Glossary
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overlay screen
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. (1) The interactive interface to the PATHMON process, through which users
enter commands to configure and manage Pathway applications. (2) 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 requester 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-controlled object. An object defined and managed by a PATHMON process,
through PATHCOM or the Pathway management programming interface. In the
PATHCOM interface, such an object can be of type PATHWAY, PATHMON, SERVER,
TCP, TERM, PROGRAM, or TELL. See also object and Pathway object.
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.