NonStop S-Series Hardware Installation and FastPath Guide (G06.25+)

Glossary
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appropriate privileges
appropriate privileges. In the Open System Services (OSS) environment, an
implementation-defined means of associating privileges with a process for function
calls or function call options that need special privileges.
Archive. A set of unstructured files used to collect the software received onto the host
system. Files received as input are placed in the Archive, and attributes of the files are
stored in the host database. The planner specifies the Archive location in the
Configuration Manager profile, using the Archive and Database Maintenance Interface.
Archive and Database Maintenance Interface. A block-mode interface run by a database
or system administrator at both the host system and target systems to perform
Distributed Systems Management/Software Configuration Manager (DSM/SCM)
maintenance functions.
ASCII. American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A single-byte code set that
uses only 7 of the 8 bits in a byte to represent each character. The ASCII code set
contains the uppercase and lowercase characters of the U.S. English alphabet, some
punctuation symbols, the digits 0 through 9, and some symbols and control characters.
Because of its limited characters, and because the 8th bit is sometimes used in ASCII
programs as a utility bit, the ASCII code set is not appropriate for use in international
software.
ASIC. See application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC).
ASSIGN. An HP Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL) command you can use to
associate a file name with a logical file of a program or to assign a physical device to
logical entities that an application uses.
assign message. Within Subsystem Control Facility (SCF), a message created by SCF for
each ASSIGN command. A new process must request its assign message following
receipt of the startup message. All assign messages set by the SCF ASSIGN
command, plus the ones read from the HP Tandem Advanced Command Language
(TACL) command interpreter, are passed to the new process.
assumed object. The object type or object name specified by a Subsystem Control Facility
(SCF) ASSUME command. If an ASSUME command has been used to establish a
default object type and fully qualified default object name, and if that object type and
object name together refer to a valid object, object-spec can be omitted entirely
from an SCF command, and the command is applied to the object known as the
assumed object.
asynchronous wide area network (AWAN) servers. A local area network (LAN)-based
communications device that provides (1) asynchronous connections to terminals,
printers, and terminal emulators for HP NonStop servers; (2) remote-access disk
operating system (DOS), Windows, and Macintosh platforms; (3) VT-to-6530 protocol
conversion; and (4) dial-out connections for LAN-attached DOS, Windows, and
Macintosh platforms.
ATM3SA. See ATM 3 ServerNet adapter (ATM3SA).