Pathway Products Glossary

Glossary
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pseudocode file
pseudocode file. A file containing compiled code that is interpreted by software instead of
being executed by the hardware. The SCREEN COBOL compiler produces pseudocode
to be interpreted by the TCP. See also object file.
pseudo Pathsend procedure. In the Extended General Device Support (GDSX) software,
one of the TSCODE-supported procedures that have Pathsend procedure counterparts.
pTAL. See Portable Transaction Application Language (pTAL)
.
PWY2TUX translation server. See Pathway to TUXEDO (PWY2TUX) translation server
.
PXMCFG utility. The program used to configure a Pathway/XM environment. PXMCFG
takes a file of configuration statements as input and uses the information in the
configuration statements to build the SuperCTL file.
PXMCHK utility. A command line utility program that reads a configuration source file and
verifies that all the named references (such as file names and node names) can be
resolved. You run the PXMCHK utility before migrating to a new configuration, after
you move the new configuration source file to the Pathway/XM environment in which it
is to run. See also rolling configurations
.
PXMCNVRT utility. A program that helps migrate an existing Pathway application to use
Pathway/XM. PXMCNVRT takes a running Pathway application, extracts the
necessary information from it, and produces a configuration source file that builds a
Pathway/XM configuration corresponding to the existing PATHMON environment.
After you run PXMCNVRT to build the initial Pathway/XM configuration, you can
make additional changes to the configuration to take fuller advantage of Pathway/XM
features. See also BUILDCFG
.
PXMCOM. (1) The interactive management interface for a Pathway/XM environment.
(2) The process that provides this interface.
PXMCOM command file. A file of PXMCOM commands that perform startup,
maintenance, or shutdown functions for a Pathway/XM environment.
R
reduced instruction-set computing (RISC). A processor architecture based on a relatively
small and simple instruction set, a large number of general-purpose registers, and an
optimized instruction pipeline that supports high-performance instruction execution. See
also complex instruction-set computing (CISC).
relative pathname. An OSS pathname that does not begin with a slash (/) character.
A relative pathname is resolved beginning with the current working directory. See also
OSS pathname
, absolute pathname, and current working directory.