Flow Map Manual

About This Manual
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This manual describes two related products:
Flow Map Host (FMH)
Flow Map PC (FMP)
A third, related product, Tandem Performance Data Collector, is documented in the
Tandem Performance Data Collector (TPDC) Manual.
Flow Map Host filters, reduces, and formats performance data collected by the
Tandem TPDC and Measure products.
Flow Map PC is a Windows workstation graphical user interface that creates a flow
diagram showing how the processes, files and connections of an application running
on the Tandem system interact.
Audience The primary audience for the manual includes customers, analysts and programmers.
The secondary audience includes field analysts, system designers, QA testers,
application programmers, system managers, and system engineers.
Audience
Prerequisites
Flow Map runs on PCs under Microsoft Windows and Excel. You must be familiar
with Windows to run Flow Map effectively. Knowledge of Microsoft Excel is helpful
but not essential.
Manual Organization This manual has the following sections and appendixes:
Section Contents
1 Introduces the Flow Map functions, architecture, and diagrams.
2 Describes the Flow Map hardware and software requirements, installation steps, starting
and quitting procedures, and online help.
3 Describes the Flow Map Host component.
4 Describes the Flow Map PC component.
5 Acts as a tutorial to Flow Map.
A Provides a quick reference list of Flow Map commands.
B Explains the error messages displayed by Flow Map.
C Lists some of the files used by Flow Map.
D Lists the Flow Map Host connection and object attributes.
E Defines the Flow Map Host Processing and Database object attributes.
F Lists the Flow Map Host internal table limits.