Pathway Products Glossary

Glossary
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PATHCOM
PATHCOM. (1) The command interface to the PATHMON process, through which users
enter commands to configure and manage Pathway applications when Pathway/XM is
not used. (2) The process that provides and supports the PATHCOM interface. In a
Pathway/XM environment, PATHCOM processes are used internally only, to interpret
management commands directed to individual PATHMON processes. You configure a
Pathway/XM environment by using PXMCFG and start up, maintain, and shut down
that environment by using PXMCOM.
PATHCOM command file. A file of PATHCOM commands that define and add the
PATHMON-controlled objects required to execute an application. This file can contain
all of the commands needed to start a PATHMON environment.
PATHCOM command terminal. See command terminal
.
PATHCTL. See PATHMON configuration file
.
Pathmaker product. A menu-driven application generator, provided by Compaq for
NonStop™ Himalaya systems, that increases the productivity of programmers
developing Pathway applications. The Pathmaker software generates requester
programs in SCREEN COBOL and server programs in C or COBOL85.
PATHMON configuration file. A disk file in which a particular PATHMON process
maintains configuration information for the objects under its control. The name of this
file is PATHCTL.
PATHMON-controlled object. An object defined and managed by a PATHMON process,
through PATHCOM or the Pathway management programming interface. In the
PATHCOM interface, such an object can be of type PATHWAY, PATHMON,
SERVER, TCP, TERM, PROGRAM, or TELL. See also object
and PATHWAY object.
PATHMON environment. The set of servers, server classes, TCPs, terminals, SCREEN
COBOL programs, and tell messages that run together under the control of one
PATHMON process.
PATHMON log file. A file used by a PATHMON process for reporting errors and changes
in status.
PATHMON object. An object of type PATHMON; that is, a PATHMON process. See also
PATHMON process
and PATHMON-controlled object.
PATHMON process. (1) In a Pathway environment without Pathway/XM, the central
controlling process for the environment. The PATHMON process maintains
configuration-related data; grants links to server classes in response to requests from
TCPs and LINKMON processes; and performs all process control (starting, monitoring,
restarting, and stopping) of server processes and TCPs. (2) In a Pathway/XM
environment, a process that monitors and manages a set of requester and server objects
such as TCPs, TERM objects, and server classes (SERVER objects). A Pathway/XM
environment can include multiple PATHMON processes, and all are configured and
managed centrally through the SuperCTL file. See also well-known named PATHMON
process and SuperCTL file.