File Utility Program (FUP) Management Programming Manual

File Utility Program (FUP) Management Programming Manual—523322-001

About This Manual

Who Should Read This Manual?

This manual describes the programmatic interface for the File Utility Program (FUP)

and its Online Reload Server (ORSERV) process. The Subsystem Programmatic

Interface (SPI) and its message-based, token-oriented interface let programmers write

management applications that can communicate with the FUP subsystem.

Any C, COBOL85, or TAL language programmers who are developing a management

application that uses SPI to communicate with FUP or ORSERV should use this

manual. It might also benefit Compaq Tandem Advanced Command Languague

(TACL) programmers who are writing macros or routines that use SPI to communicate

with FUP or ORSERV, and any others who need detailed information about the FUP or

ORSERV programmatic interface.

Readers of this manual should be familiar with the Compaq NonStop™ Kernel

operating system and its file-system terminology. You should also be familiar with using

interactive FUP commands, the Compaq requester-server approach to application

programming, the Compaq Data Definition Language (DDL), and SPI and one of its

compatible programming languages (C, COBOL85, TACL, or TAL).

Organization of This Manual

Section/Appendix Description

Section 1, Introduction

Introduces the programmatic interface used by FUP and

ORSERV, describes the FUP structure and its relationship to

ORSERV, and displays the differences of using interactive FUP

commands, programmatic commands, or file-system procedures

on C-series or D-series systems

Section 2, FUP

Programmatic Interface

Describes how a management application communicates with

FUP using SPI

Section 3, FUP

Commands and

Responses

Details the FUP CHECKSUM, DUPLICATE, GETVERSION,

LOAD, LOADALTFILE, and RESTART programmatic commands

Section 4, ORSERV

Programmatic Interface

Describes how a management application communicates with

ORSERV using SPI

Section 5, ORSERV

Commands and

Responses

Details the ORSERV GETVERSION, ONLINERELOAD,

STATUS, and SUSPEND programmatic commands