Introduction to ENFORM

Online Transaction Products
Overview of ENFORM
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Online Transaction
Products
The Tandem distributed database management environment contains the following
products:
PATHWAY provides a simplified terminal-oriented interface for developing and
controlling modular transaction processing applications.
ENABLE automatically generates interactive update applications under
PATHWAY.
TMF maintains consistency of databases changed by transactions.
DDL is used to create a dictionary for the relational database; the dictionary
describes the structure of all files in the database.
ENFORM provides a data query and reporting capability.
These products simplify the development and control of online transaction processing
applications (Figure 1-4).
Figure 1-4. Online Transaction Processing Applications
Add New Employees
Update Inventory
Print Inventory Reports
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Inventory
Personnel