TS/MP 2.5 Management Programming Manual

Figure 2 A TS/MP Application With Pathway/iTS
Distributed Systems Management
Distributed Systems Management (DSM) is a group of software tools that enables you to construct
an integrated view of a system or network. DSM tools allow you to:
• Manage your system from a single control point.
• Distribute control of transaction processing among systems.
• Retain a session with one subsystem such as Pathway, TMF, or FUP while interacting with
another subsystem.
• Control different types of objects uniformly (objects can be of varying types, including files,
devices, and transactions).
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