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

Configuring Pathway/iTS Objects
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Configuring PROGRAM Objects
screen programs temporarily on one or more devices. When the task is completed, the
TERM object is automatically deleted.
When a user issues a RUN PROGRAM command, the associated PROGRAM object
implicitly creates a TERM object for that individual device or process. This TERM
object manages that device or process, and enables the user to interact with the
Pathway application associated with the screen program. This TERM object, however,
is only temporary; it ceases to exist when the user exits from the screen program.
To configure a PROGRAM object, you must specify these attributes with the SET
PROGRAM command:
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TCP specifies the name of the TCP that controls the screen program.
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TYPE specifies the type of input-output device or process that the PROGRAM
object controls and the name of the screen program that runs on the device or
process when it is started.
You must specify one TYPE attribute for each type of device or process supported
by the PROGRAM object. Then, for each type, you indicate the name of the screen
program that should be executed if the PROGRAM object is run on a device of that
type. (In a SCREEN COBOL program, the program name is the name specified in
the PROGRAM-ID paragraph of the Identification Division.)
Because your screen programs can run on many different types of devices or
processes, you can also use the TYPE attribute to specify the different options that
these devices or processes require.
In addition to the required attributes, other, optional ones can be selected:
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SECURITY specifies which users are allowed to run the screen program.
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ERROR-ABORT specifies whether the TCP should abort the screen program task
in the event of an error.
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BREAK, an option of the TYPE attribute, specifies whether the TCP accepts the
Break key function for its PROGRAM objects running in conversational mode.
For a complete description of all the SET PROGRAM attributes, see Section 11,
PROGRAM Commands.
The following example defines and adds a PROGRAM object named SALES. This
PROGRAM object enables a TCP named TCP-PRIME to run a screen program named
MENU-6530 on 6530 terminals and a screen program named MENU-3270 on IBM
3270 terminals:
= SET PROGRAM TCP TCP-PRIME
= SET PROGRAM TYPE T16-6530 (INITIAL MENU-6530)
= SET PROGRAM TYPE IBM-3270 (INITIAL MENU-3270)
= ADD PROGRAM SALES