Pathway Products Glossary

Glossary
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pathname. See OSS pathname.
Pathsend procedures. The set of Guardian procedure calls that provide general access to
Pathway server classes from any process on a NonStop™ Himalaya system.
Pathsend process. See Pathsend requester
.
Pathsend program. A Guardian program, written in C, C++, COBOL85, Pascal, pTAL, or
TAL, that makes calls to Pathsend procedures to request services from a Pathway server.
A running Pathsend program is called a Pathsend requester or a Pathsend process. See
also Pathsend requester
.
Pathsend requester. A process, written as a Guardian program in C, C++, COBOL85,
Pascal, pTAL, or TAL, that makes calls to Pathsend procedures to request services from
a Pathway server. Such a requester uses the LINKMON process for link management.
A Pathsend process can be either a standard requester, which initiates application
requests, or a nested server, which is configured as a server class but acts as a requester
by making requests to other servers. A Pathsend requester is also known as a Pathsend
process.
PATHTCP2. The TCP object file, usually identified by the file name
$SYSTEM.SYSTEM.PATHTCP2.
PATHTCPL. The TCP user library object file. This file is written in TNS/R native mode—
that is, it uses the native instruction set for TNS/R systems. See also TNS/R systems
.
Pathway application. A set of programs that perform online transaction processing tasks in
the Guardian environment on NonStop™ Himalaya systems, using interfaces defined by
Compaq software. A Pathway application can include SCREEN COBOL requesters,
Pathsend requesters, and Pathway servers. It can also include GDSX front-end
processes and clients that use RSC/MP. See also NonStop™ TUXEDO application
.
Pathway application development environment. A set of tools supporting the development
of applications for the Pathway transaction processing environment. Depending on the
customer’s needs and software configuration, this set of tools could include the
SCREEN COBOL compiler and the SCREEN COBOL Utility Program (SCUP), the
Pathmaker product, and various third-party software tools. See also Pathway transaction
processing environment.
Pathway environment. See Pathway transaction processing environment
.
Pathway management programming interface. A set of programmatic commands that
allow users to write management application programs that communicate directly with
the PATHMON process for configuration and management. This interface is based on
the Subsystem Programmatic Interface (SPI) within the Distributed Systems
Management (DSM) software. Programmatic commands communicating with the
PATHMON process use the Pathway subsystem ID. See also Pathway subsystem
and
subsystem ID
.
Pathway monitor process. See PATHMON process
.