Pathway Products Glossary

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Glossary

absolute pathname. A Compaq NonStop™ Kernel Open System Services (OSS) pathname

that begins with a slash (/) character and is resolved beginning with the root directory.

See also OSS pathname

, relative pathname, and root directory.

accept operation. An operation in which a screen program waits for a response from the

terminal and allows data to be input into the program data area from the terminal.

advisory message. A message displayed in the terminal advisory field to inform the terminal

operator of errors detected during input checking.

API. See application program interface (API)

application. A complete set of programs or routines that perform a function. See also

Pathway application

and NonStop™ TUXEDO application.

application program interface (API). A set of services (such as programming language

functions or procedures) that are called by an application program to communicate with

other software components. For example, an API might consist of a set of procedure

calls that provide a workstation application with a standard interface for communicating

with a Compaq NonStop™ Himalaya system. Other examples of APIs are the ATMI in

Compaq NonStop™ TUXEDO systems and the Pathsend procedures.

application terminal. A terminal on which a Pathway application runs. See also command

terminal.

Application-Transaction Monitor Interface (ATMI). The application programming

interface to the System/T transaction monitor in a NonStop™ TUXEDO system. This

interface includes transaction routines, message handling routines, service interface

routines, and buffer-management routines.

assignment. The use of an ASSIGN command to make logical file assignments for programs

in the Guardian operating environment on NonStop™ Himalaya systems. A logical

assignment equates a Guardian file name with a logical file of a program and,

optionally, attributes characteristics to that file.

associative server. A process within a server class that can be started outside the Pathway

environment by a process other than the PATHMON process that controls the server

class.

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