COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Glossary
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terminal
terminal. An input-output device.
terminal control process (TCP). A process used for terminal management and transaction
control, provided by HP as a part of the Pathway/TS product. A TCP is a multithreaded
process that interprets compiled SCREEN COBOL requester programs (screen
programs) in the user’s application, executing the appropriate program instructions for
each I-O device or process for which the TCP is configured. The TCP coordinates
communication between screen programs and server processes.
text-name. A user-defined word that identifies library text.
text-word. A character or a sequence of contiguous characters between margin A and
margin R in a COBOL library, source program, or in pseudo-text which is:
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A separator, except for: a space, a pseudo-text delimiter, and the opening and
closing delimiters for nonnumeric literals.
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The right parenthesis and left parenthesis characters, regardless of context within
the library, source program, or pseudo-text, are always considered text-words.
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A literal including, in the case of nonnumeric literals, the opening quotation mark
and the closing quotation mark that bound the literal
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Any other sequence of contiguous COBOL characters except comments and the
word COPY, bounded by separators, which is neither a separator nor a literal.
TMF. See HP NonStop™ Transaction Management Facility (TMF).
TNS. Refers to fault-tolerant HP computers that support the HP NonStop™ operating
system and are based on microcoded complex instruction-set computing (CISC)
technology. TNS systems run the TNS instruction set. Compare to TNS/R and TNS/E.
TNS accelerated mode. A TNS emulation environment on a TNS/R or TNS/E system in
which accelerated TNS object files are run. TNS instructions have been previously
translated into optimized sequences of MIPS or Intel® Itanium® instructions. TNS
accelerated mode runs much faster than TNS interpreted mode. Accelerated or
interpreted TNS object code cannot be mixed with or called by native mode object
code. See also TNS Object Code Accelerator (OCA). Compare to TNS mode and
native mode.
TNS architecture. NonStop Series architecture. HP computers that are based on CISC
technology. TNS architecture implements the TNS instruction set.
TNS compiler. A compiler in the TNS development environment that generates 16-bit TNS
object code following the TNS conventions for memory, stacks, 16-bit registers, and
call linkage. The COBOL85 compiler is an example of such a compiler. Contrast with
TNS/R native compiler and TNS/E native compiler.