Pathway/iTS System Management Manual (G06.24+)

HP NonStop Pathway/iTS System Management Manual—426748-002

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Introduction to Pathway/iTS System

Management

This manual provides the information you need to define and control objects under the

HP NonStop Pathway/iTS product to support SCREEN COBOL requesters and web

clients in a Pathway environment by using the PATHCOM interface. It also provides

syntax and complete descriptions of all PATHCOM commands for Pathway/iTS

objects, in addition to cause, effect, and recovery information for error messages

reported by Pathway/iTS terminal control processes (TCPs).

Objects defined and controlled under TS/MP, which support server processes and the

Pathway environment as a whole, are described in a separate manual. For more

information about creating and managing server objects and TS/MP, see the TS/MP

System Management Manual.

As an alternative to using PATHCOM, the Pathway/XM product is available.

Pathway/XM simplifies the management of Pathway applications by means of several

features. It provides a centralized configuration and management interface with

automatic load balancing, online reconfiguration and replacement of servers, simplified

object naming, and an increased overall system capacity. This manual does not cover

how to manage a Pathway environment through Pathway/XM. For more information,

see the Pathway/XM System Management Manual.

You can also manage the Pathway environment programmatically by using the

Pathway/iTS and TS/MP management programming interface. This interface lets you

write management applications that automate configuration and control tasks. The

interface is a token-oriented interface based on the Subsystem Programmatic Interface

(SPI) message format, procedures, and definition files. For more information about the

Pathway management programming interface, see the Pathway/iTS Management

Programming Manual and TS/MP Management Programming Manual

Supported Release Version Updates (RVUs)

Pathway/iTS 2.0 is a release-independent product that can be used with these RVUs

of the HP NonStop operating system:

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D42.00 and later D-series RVUs

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G02.00 and later G-series RVUs

TS/MP is required by Pathway/iTS. HP NonStop Transaction Management Facility is

also required if you are using transaction statements in your requester programs.