iTP Active Transaction Pages (iTP ATP) Programmer's Guide

Glossary
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Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG)
Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG). An image format used to transmit graphics on
the World Wide Web (WWW).
JPEG. See Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG)
.
key database file. The file in which you maintain keys you generated using the keyadmin
command with either the -mkpair or -keydb argument. These are the keys you use to
generate certificates for software encryption. Compare WID keyfile
.
Key Exchange Key (KEK). An encryption key used to encrypt other keys.
local area network (LAN). Any physical network technology that operates at high speed
(usually from tens of megabits per second to several gigabits per second) over short
distances (up to a few thousand meters).
Mosaic. See browser
.
namespace. A context for resolving names, used to prevent ambiguity (or “collisions”) where
a name is can have different meanings in different situations. To qualify a name by
identifying the namespace expresses the idea that the name is used as defined in that
namespace.
Netscape. See browser
.
nowait mode. In Guardian file-system operations and in some APS operations, the mode in
which the called procedure initiates an input/output (I/O) operation but does not wait for
it to complete before returning control to the caller. In order to make the called
procedure wait for the completion of the operation, the application calls a separate
procedure. Compare wait mode
.
Open System Services (OSS). An open system environment available for interactive or
programmatic use with the NonStop Kernel operating system. Processes that run in the
OSS environment use the OSS application program interface (API); interactive users of
the OSS environment use the OSS shell for their command interpreter.
OSS applications. POSIX compliant applications.
OSS. See Open System Services (OSS)
.
packet. The unit of data sent across a packet-switching network. While some Internet
literature uses it to refer specifically to data sent across a physical network, other
literature views the Internet as a packet-switching network and describes IP datagrams
as packets.
PATHMON. The central controlling process for a NonStop TS/MP application.
Pathway. The former name of NonStop TS/MP, a product providing transaction services for
persistent, scalable, transaction-processing applications.