TS/MP Pathsend and Server Programming Manual (H06.05+, J06.03+)

Table 2 Task and Manual Correspondences
To Perform this…You Need…
If Your Application
Includes…
Design an application including Pathsend
requesters
Section 2, “Designing Your Application”
(page 29)
Pathsend requesters
Write a Pathsend requester programSection 3, “Writing Pathsend Requesters”
(page 51)
Look up the syntax of Pathsend proceduresSection 5, “Pathsend Procedure Call Reference”
(page 75)
Look up cause, effect, and recovery for errors
returned to a Pathsend requester programs
Section 6, “Pathsend Errors” (page 109)
Look up limits pertaining to Pathsend requestersAppendix A, “TS/MP Limits for Pathsend
Requesters” (page 128)
See examples of Pathsend requester programAppendix B, “Examples” (page 129)
Design an application including Pathway serversSection 2, “Designing Your Application”
(page 29)
Pathway servers
Write a Pathway server programSection 4, “Writing Pathway Servers” (page 62)
See examples of Pathway server programsAppendix B, “Examples” (page 129)
If you are writing SCREEN COBOL requesters, you need the Pathway/iTS TCP and Terminal
Programming Guide and the Pathway/iTS SCREEN COBOL Reference Manual for programming
information.
If you are writing Pathsend requesters that communicate with NonStop Tuxedo servers, or if you
are writing Pathway servers that handle requests from NonStop Tuxedo requesters (clients or servers
acting as clients), you also need the manuals for the NonStop Tuxedo system, particularly the
NonStop TUXEDO System Application Development Guide, for additional information. If you are
using the translation server or the NonStop Tuxedo to Pathway translation server, you also need
the NonStop TUXEDO System Pathway Translation Servers Manual. This manual provides
configuration, startup, and programming information.
Advantages of the Pathway Environment
TS/MP provides ease of development, manageability, and the fundamental strengths and benefits
of NonStop systems. The strengths and benefits of NonStop systems include data integrity, fault
tolerance, high performance and low cost, system security, scalability, and distributed processing.
The following paragraphs describe how TS/MP and related products—known together as the
Pathway environment—benefit the application designer and programmer. The Introduction to
NonStop Transaction Processing provides a fuller description of how all the NonStop fundamentals
apply to transaction processing.
Ease of Development
Development costs are one of the highest expenses associated with online transaction processing
(OLTP) systems. The more sophisticated the features and safeguards that are built into your OLTP
application—for example, multiprocessing, fault tolerance, and data integrity—the greater the
costs. When you use TS/MP and related HP transaction processing products to create your OLTP
applications, development time and efforts, and therefore costs, can be measurably reduced.
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