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

Glossary
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Pathway environment
Pathway environment. See Pathway transaction processing environment.
Pathway management programming interface. A set of programmatic commands that
allow users to write management application programs that communicate directly with
the PATHMON process for configuration and management. This interface is based on
the Subsystem Programmatic Interface (SPI) within the Distributed Systems
Management (DSM) software. Programmatic commands communicating with the
PATHMON process use the Pathway subsystem ID. See also Pathway subsystem and
subsystem ID.
Pathway monitor process. See PATHMON process.
Pathway object. An object in the Pathway transaction processing environment. The set of
Pathway objects is a more inclusive set than the set of PATHMON-controlled objects:
for example, a LINKMON process is a Pathway object but not a PATHMON-controlled
object. See also object, PATHMON-controlled object, and Pathway transaction
processing environment.
Pathway Open Environment Toolkit (POET). A set of programs and utilities that helps
programmers create and run client/transaction server applications. In the POET
environment, the client is a program running on a workstation, and the server is a
Pathway server running on a Tandem NonStop system. POET uses the services of the
Remote Server Call (RSC) product. The programming tools provided by POET include
a simplified programming interface, name mapping, and conversion mapping.
Pathway server. A server process or program in the Pathway transaction processing
environment. See also NonStop TUXEDO server and PTP server.
Pathway subsystem. The PATHMON environment components to which SPI commands
are sent under the Pathway subsystem ID and which generate EMS event messages
with the Pathway subsystem ID. All SPI commands for the Pathway subsystem are
sent to the PATHMON process, but the processsing for the command might involve
other processes, such as a TCP. Likewise, all EMS messages from the Pathway
subsystem are generated by the PATHMON process, but the information might
originate from another process. See also subsystem ID.
Pathway system. A term formerly used for the set of objects managed by a particular
PATHMON process; now called PATHMON environment. See PATHMON environment.
Pathway transaction processing environment. A run-time environment consisting of
Tandem’s transaction-processing products for the Guardian operating environment.
This term is often shortened to “Pathway environment.” Depending on the customer’s
needs and software configuration, the Pathway environment could include
NonStop TS/MP, the run-time portions of Pathway/TS (the TCP and the SCREEN
COBOL run-time environment), NonStop TM/MP, GDSX processes, the run-time
portion of the RSC product, the POET run-time environment, and the TRANSFER
delivery system (when used as a workflow aid in transaction processing). See also
NonStop TUXEDO transaction processing environment.