PAM Management Programming Manual

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Glossary-1
Glossary
ABORT command. A sensitive SCF and SPI command that terminates the operation of an
object as quickly as possible; only enough processing is done to ensure the subsystem
security.
ADD command. A sensitive SCF and SPI command that adds an object to the PAM
subsystem. Only the PORT object type can be added with the SCF ADD command. All
other object types are added when the system is configured.
ALTER command. A sensitive SCF and SPI command that changes the values of the
attributes of an existing object. This command changes only the specified attributes of
the named (or assumed) object or objects.
ASCII. American National Standard Code for Information Interchange. (1) A method of
coding data, consisting of 7 bits for each character plus a parity bit. Designed for
asynchronous or byte-synchronous use, the code has 128 standard characters.
(2) An 8-bit code representing characters and control codes. One of two major codes
used to represent and exchange data (the other is EBCDIC).
attribute. In DSM, a characteristic of an entity. For example, two attributes of a PAM
communications line might be its DFT and its RETRYLIMIT. In a token-oriented
interface based on the Subsystem Programmatic Interface (SPI), an attribute of an object
is usually expressed as either a simple token or a field within an extensible structured
token.
command file. A text file containing a series of commands that the user can run by issuing
the OBEY command in TACL or SCF, followed by the name of the text file.
Data Forward Count (DFC). The maximum number of inbound aggregate SDU messages
that should be queued before they are delivered.
Data Forward Size (DFS). The size, in bytes, of the outbound aggregate SDU buffer
managed by the MSAP.
Data Forward Time (DFT). The maximum amount of time an inbound message should wait
before it is delivered.
DELETE command. A sensitive SCF and SPI command that removes objects from the PAM
subsystem. Only objects that were added with the ADD command can be deleted.
DETAIL option. An option available with the INFO, STATUS, and VERSION commands in
SCF that provides additional information about a specific object.
DFC. See Data Forward Count (DFC)
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DFS. See Data Forward Size (DFS)
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DFT. See Data Forward Time (DFT)
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