Pathway Products Glossary

Glossary
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UMP. See unsolicited-message processing (UMP).
unsolicited message. A message that is sent to a SCREEN COBOL program and includes
application-dependent information to be processed by the program. Although the
program does not do anything to initiate the message, the message must conform to the
format defined by the program. The message is sent first to the TCP. It contains a header
with information that is used by the TCP and a body with information that the TCP
delivers to the SCREEN COBOL program.
unsolicited-message processing (UMP). The feature that allows terminals running SCREEN
COBOL requesters to accept and reply to unsolicited messages sent to them by Guardian
processes outside of the PATHMON environment.
USCODE. The object code for the part of a GDSX process that is developed by the user to
provide device or access-method specifics such as control operations or data-stream
translation. USCODE is bound with TSCODE to produce an operational GDSX process.
See also TSCODE
and Extended General Device Support (GDSX).
user conversion procedure. A procedure that lets users make their own validation checks or
conversions of data passed between a SCREEN COBOL program and a terminal screen
or intelligent device.
user profile. A set of special-register values associated with a particular, named set of users
of a Pathway/iTS web client. See also user profile database
and PROFDBM utility.
user profile database. The database in which user profiles for a Pathway/iTS web client are
stored. See also user profile
and PROFDBM utility.
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ViewPoint application. An extensible interactive application for managing operations in the
Guardian environment. It provides tools for interacting with multiple subsystems,
including PATHCOM and PXMCOM, allowing a system manager to easily control an
integrated NonStop™ Himalaya system from one location.
volume. A disk drive, or a pair of disk drives that forms a mirrored disk, in the Guardian
environment. The name of a volume is the second of the four parts of a file name.
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web client. See Pathway/iTS web client.