Pathway Products Glossary
Glossary
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gateway. (1) A process, such as the Transaction Delivery Process (TDP) that is part of
Compaq NonStop™ Remote Server Call/MP (RSC/MP), that manages communications
between dissimilar environments (for example, a workstation and a NonStop™
Himalaya system). A gateway process both transfers information and converts it to a
form compatible with the protocols used by the destination environment. (2) A
program, provided as part of the Pathway/iTS product and implemented as a
Pathway/iTS IDS requester under the control of a TCP, that manages communications
between a Pathway/iTS web client and a Pathway server. See also Pathway/iTS
gateway and Pathway/iTS web client.
GDSX. See Extended General Device Support (GDSX)
.
graphical user interface (GUI). A type of screen interface that typically includes pull-down
menus, icons, dialog boxes, and online help.
Guardian. An environment available for interactive or programmatic use with the
NonStop™ Kernel operating system. Processes that run in the Guardian environment
use the Guardian system procedure calls as their application program interface, and
might also use related APIs such as the Pathsend and TMF procedure calls. See also
Open System Services (OSS)
.
Guardian environment. The Guardian API, tools, and utilities. See also Guardian
.
Guardian operating environment. See Guardian environment
.
H
high PIN. A process identification number (PIN) in the range 256 through 65535. See also
process identification number (PIN) and low PIN.
I
IDS. See intelligent device support (IDS) facility.
initial configuration. The configuration of a Pathway/XM environment as it is specified in
the configuration source file used when the SuperCTL file is first built. See also current
configuration.
Inspect. A debugging tool, provided by Compaq, that can be used interactively to examine
and modify the execution of Guardian processes and SCREEN COBOL requester
programs on NonStop™ Himalaya systems.
Inspect command terminal. The terminal on which programmers enter commands to the
Inspect debugging tool when debugging a SCREEN COBOL program or a Pathway
server.