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

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 NonStop system. POET uses the services of the RSC/MP
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.
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 HP’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 TS/MP,
the runtime portions of Pathway/iTS (the TCP and the SCREEN COBOL run-time environment),
TMF, GDSX processes, the run-time portion of the RSC/MP 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.
Pathway
translation server
for the NonStop
Tuxedo system
A server process, provided by HP as part of the NonStop Tuxedo product, that allows a Pathway
(SCREEN COBOL or Pathsend) requester to use the services of a NonStop Tuxedo server. The
translation server therefore acts as a gateway process between the Pathway environment and
the NonStop Tuxedo environment. Requesters that use this translation server must include special
information in the header of each request message to identify the target NonStop Tuxedo
application and service.
Pathway/iTS An HP product that provides tools for developing and interpreting screen programs to support
OLTP applications in the Guardian environment on NonStop systems. Pathway/TS screen programs
communicate with terminals and intelligent devices. Pathway/TS includes the TCP, the SCREEN
COBOL compiler and run-time environment, and the SCREEN COBOL Utility Program (SCUP). It
requires the services of the TS/MP product. See also NonStop Transaction Services/MP (TS/MP).
PIN See process identification number (PIN).
POBJ The default prefix, or file-name root, used by the SCREEN COBOL compiler in naming its output
files. If no prefix is specified in the RUN command to run the compiler, the compiler produces a
code file named POBJCOD, a directory file named POBJDIR, and (if the SYMBOLS option is
enabled) a symbols file named POBJSYM.
POET See Pathway Open Environment Toolkit (POET).
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