TS/MP 2.5 Management Programming Manual

About This Manual
This preface describes the purpose and the contents of this manual and other manuals that are
closely related to this manual.
This manual describes the TS/MP and Pathway/iTS products. The contents of these two products
are:
• TS/MP: This product consists of the PATHMON process, the application cluster services (ACS)
subsystem processes, the PATHCOM process and interface, and the Pathsend procedure calls.
• Pathway/iTS: This product consists of the terminal control process (TCP), the SCREEN COBOL
compiler and run-time environment, and the SCREEN COBOL Utility Program (SCUP).
With the HP NonStop Transaction Management Facility (TMF), the TS/MP product forms the
foundation for the HP open transaction processing and client/server products.
The Pathway/iTS product supports requester programs that run in the Guardian environment and
communicates with terminals and intelligent devices. It requires the services of the TS/MP product.
This manual describes the Management Programming interface to the HP NonStop™ TS/MP
product. It is intended for programmers writing applications that manage TS/MP. It describes how
to use the Subsystem Programmatic Interface (SPI) commands in a management application that
configures and controls objects in a TS/MP transaction-processing system controlled by the
PATHMON process and monitors the status and performance of those and other objects in a TS/MP
environment. It also provides syntax and complete descriptions of all Pathway SPI commands except
those specific to the NonStop Pathway/iTS product in addition to cause, effect, and recovery
information for all messages generated by the PATHMON process and by SPI.
Product Version
NonStop TS/MP 2.5.
Supported Release Version Updates (RVUs)
This publication supports J06.11 and all subsequent J-series RVUs and H06.22 and all subsequent
H-series RVUs, until otherwise indicated by its replacement publications.
Intended Audience
This manual is intended for individuals writing applications that manage TS/MP objects in a
Pathway subsystem. Such programmers also need the task-oriented information in the TS/MP
System Management Manual. It is also assumed that readers have a general knowledge of HP
NonStop system programming concepts.
To use this manual effectively, be familiar with:
• Basic NonStop system architecture.
• Programming concepts of the HP NonStop operating system.
• Programming using TAL, TACL, C, or COBOL.
• Reading declarations written in the Data Definition Language (DDL), as described in the SPI
Programming Manual.
• The Distributed Systems Management (DSM) facilities.
Related Manuals
In addition to this manual, Figure1 (page 10) shows the information about Pathway subsystem in
these publications.
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