NonStop System Glossary

HP NonStop Transaction Management Facility (TMF)
HP software that provides transaction protection and database consistency in demanding online
transaction processing (OLTP) and decision-support environments. It gives full protection to
transactions that access distributed SQL and Enscribe databases, as well as recovery capabilities
for transactions, online disk volumes, and entire databases.
HP Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL)
The user interface to the NonStop operating system. The TACL product is both a command interpreter
and a command language. Users can write TACL programs that perform complex tasks or provide
a consistent user interface across independently programmed applications.
HP Tandem Failure Data System (TFDS)
A diagnostic tool that is a component of the NonStop operating system. The TFDS tool isolates
software problems and provides automatic processor-failure data collection, diagnosis, and recovery
services.
HP Transaction Application Language (TAL)
A systems programming language with many features specific to stack-oriented TNS systems.
HSS
See halted-state services (HSS).
hybrid shared run-time library (hybrid SRL)
A shared run-time library (SRL) that has been augmented by the addition of a dynamic section that
exports the SRL’s symbols in a form that can be used by position independent code (PIC) clients.
A hybrid SRL looks like a dynamic-link library (DLL) to PIC clients (except it cannot be loaded at
other addresses and cannot itself link to DLLs). The code and data in the SRL are no different in a
hybrid SRL, and its semantics for non-PIC clients are unchanged.
Hz
See hertz (Hz).
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I18N
See internationalization.
IBC
See in-band control (IBC).
ICMP
See Internet control message protocol (ICMP).
identifier
A unique name; for example, TANDEM^FILES^TO^COPY; in the CONFTEXT file that refers to a
text string (one or more file names as given in the CONFAUX file). When Distributed Systems
Management/Software Configuration Manager (DSM/SCM) encounters an identifier, it substitutes
the text string for the identifier.
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