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

Glossary
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TRANSFER delivery system
TRANSFER delivery system. An information delivery system that enables organizations to
move and manage information efficiently within a single Tandem system or across a
network of systems. The TRANSFER delivery system supports communications
between users, I/O devices, and processes in the Guardian environment.
TSCODE. The object code for the part of a GDSX process that is supplied by Tandem.
TSCODE includes generic routines and services that support the development of a
multithreaded, fault-tolerant front-end process. See also USCODE and Extended
General Device Support (GDSX).
tuning. The process by which a system manager allocates and balances resources for
optimum system performance.
UMP. See unsolicited-message processing (UMP).
unsolicited message. A message that is sent to a SCREEN COBOL program and includes
application-dependent information to be processed by the program. Although the
program does not do anything to initiate the message, the message must conform to
the format defined by the program. The message is sent first to the TCP. It contains a
header with information that is used by the TCP and a body with information that the
TCP delivers to the SCREEN COBOL program.
unsolicited-message processing (UMP). The feature that allows terminals running
SCREEN COBOL requesters to accept and reply to unsolicited messages sent to them
by Guardian processes outside of the PATHMON environment.
USCODE. The object code for the part of a GDSX process that is developed by the user to
provide device or access-method specifics such as control operations or data-stream
translation. USCODE is bound with TSCODE to produce an operational GDSX
process. See also TSCODE and Extended General Device Support (GDSX).
user conversion procedure. A procedure that lets users make their own validation checks
or conversions of data passed between a SCREEN COBOL program and a terminal
screen or intelligent device.
ViewPoint application. An extensible interactive application for managing operations in the
Guardian environment. It provides tools for interacting with multiple Tandem
subsystems, including PATHCOM, allowing a system manager to easily control an
integrated Tandem system from one location.
volume. A disk drive, or a pair of disk drives that forms a mirrored disk, in the Guardian
environment. The name of a volume is the second of the four parts of a file name.
$RECEIVE. A special Guardian file name through which a process receives and optionally
replies to messages from other processes by using Guardian procedure calls. This file
is analogous to a request queue defined for a NonStop TUXEDO server.