Pathway Products Glossary

Glossary

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Pathway/iTS gateway

Pathway/iTS gateway. 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. It handles

requests from Pathway/iTS web clients, validates user access, and performs such

functions as beginning and ending transactions, user conversion routines, and send

operations to Pathway server processes. See also Pathway/iTS web client

Pathway/iTS Java import package. A Java import package, provided as part of

Pathway/iTS, that defines public classes and methods to enable Pathway/iTS web clients

to interact with Pathway applications. See also Pathway/iTS web client

Pathway/iTS web client. A client, created by converting a SCREEN COBOL program with

the SCUP utility, that runs under an internet browser to communicate with Pathway

servers. The client program consists of a combination of Java code and HTML pages.

Pathway/XM. A Compaq product that provides centralized management functions for the

NonStop™ TS/MP and Pathway/iTS products. Pathway/XM provides increased system

capacity, automatic load balancing, and simplified system management for large

Pathway applications. See also NonStop™ Transaction Services/MP (NonStop™

TS/MP) and Pathway/iTS.

Pathway/XM environment. A collection of PATHMON processes, NODE objects, TCPs,

terminals, SCREEN COBOL programs, servers, server classes, LINKMON processes,

and tell messages that are managed together through a SuperCTL file.

Pathway/XM log file. A file used by the PXMCOM process for reporting errors and changes

in status in the Pathway/XM environment.

PB process. See process broker (PB) process

PIN. See process identification number (PIN)

PLAN object. A Pathway/XM object that defines a set of objects to be added, deleted, or

modified while the Pathway/XM environment is active, as part of a migration from one

configuration to another. PLAN objects are created by the PXMCFG INVENTORY

statement. See also migration plan

and rolling configurations.

POBJ. The default prefix, or file-name root, used by the SCREEN COBOL compiler in

naming its output files. If no prefix is specified in the TACL RUN command to run the

compiler, the compiler produces a code file named POBJCOD, a directory file named

POBJDIR, and (if the SYMBOLS option is enabled) a symbols file named POBJSYM.

Portable Transaction Application Language (pTAL). A machine-independent systems

programming language based on TAL. The pTAL language excludes architecture-

specific TAL constructs and includes new constructs that replace the architecture-

specific constructs. See also Transaction Application Language (TAL)

primary process. The currently active process of a process pair in the Guardian environment.