Inspect Manual

Glossary
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parameter
parameter. An item you specify in an Inspect command. Parameters always appear in italic
print in the manual.
pathname. The string of characters that uniquely identifies a file within its file system. A
pathname can be either relative or absolute. See also ISO/IEC IS 9945-1:1990
(ANSI/IEEE Std. 1003.1-1990 or POSIX.1), Clause 2.2.2.57.
PATHWAY requester program. A SCREEN COBOL program running under the
supervision of a TCP. A PATHWAY requester is composed of a PATHWAY requester
program and the TCP supervising it.
PATHWAY server. An application process that accepts a request from a PATHWAY
requester, fulfills the request, and returns a reply to the requester.
pending state. .The execution state where you don’t see the program while it is running.
PIC (Position-Independent Code). Executable code that can run at different virtual
addresses.
PID. In the OSS environment, PID stands for OSS process ID, a numeric identifier
assigned to an OSS process and unique within a NonStop node.
In the Guardian environment, PID is used to mean either of these:
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A Guardian process identifier such as the process ID

The cpu, pin value that is unique to a process within a NonStop node
See also OSS process ID (PID).
PIN. See “Process identification number.”
primary entry point. The address at which execution of a scope unit begins—not to be
confused with code base, which is the address at which the code for a scope unit
begins.
ProcDebug. An accelerator option that directs the accelerator to perform optimization
across statement boundaries. This option typically produces faster-executing code
than the StmtDebug option, but debugging the program might be more difficult because
it might not be possible to set a breakpoint at some statement boundaries. ProcDebug
is the accelerator default. Contrast with StmtDebug
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process. A running machine-code program.
process handle. A system data structure that serves as the address of a named or
unnamed process in the network. A process handle identifies an individual process, not
a process pair.
process ID. A system data structure that serves as a address of a process. The structure
contains a CPU number, PIN, creation timestamp or process name, and system
number (optional). It is sometimes called a creation timestamp process ID (CRTPID).