Pathmaker Reference Manual

About This Manual
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Project leads manage the application development team and may be involved in
the design of the application. In addition to the knowledge listed previously for
application developers and programmers, these users need to know how to plan,
organize, and manage Pathmaker development projects. These users are expected
to have a thorough knowledge of Pathway.
System managers maintain the daily operation of the Tandem hardware and
software for the development and production systems. These users need to know
how to install and manage the Pathmaker software (new installations, upgrades,
and IPMs) and how to install the generated application in the production Pathway
environment. It is assumed they have a fundamental understanding of operating
and managing Tandem systems and of Pathway.
Database administrators create and maintain the application database. These
users need to know how to define data for use with Pathmaker.
Organization of This
Manual
The Pathmaker Reference Manual is organized into five sections.
These are:
Section 1, “Pathmaker Screens,” documents the Pathmaker screen-based user interface.
Screens are described in alphabetical order. The section provides an illustration of
each screen and a description of each field and function key for the screen.
Section 2, “Pathmaker Application Definition Language (PMADL),” gives the syntax
for each PMADL command and statement. PMADL provides a command-based
interface for accessing Pathmaker projects and project catalogs. PMADL supports
many of the same functions as the Pathmaker screen-based user interface, such as
managing Pathmaker application objects.
Section 3, “Macro Language,” gives the syntax for each command in the Pathmaker
macro language. Standard Pathmaker requesters and servers are written in a macro
language that is available for you to use. You can use the macro language for a range
of functions, including copying repeated text, generating lengthy blocks of code, and
even customizing Pathmaker skeletons (the code templates provided by Tandem for
requester and server programs).
Section 4, “Project Catalog,” provides reference information about the Pathmaker
project catalog, including the structure of the catalog and how to generate project
catalog reports.
Section 5, “Utilities,” contains reference information for the Pathmaker utilities.
PMPROJECT is the Pathmaker project management utility. PMINSTAL enables you to
install Pathmaker projects. HELPUTIL provides tools for defining help text for
applications generated by Pathmaker and for translating the help provided with
Pathmaker into a different language.
Appendix A, “Macro Language Example,” presents a sample macro written in the
macro language defined in Section 3.