Pathway/iTS TCP and Terminal Programming Guide

Introduction to TCP and Terminal Application
Programming
Compaq NonStop™ Pathway/iTS TCP and Terminal Programming Guide—426751-001
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The Pathmaker Application Generator
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Control access by a TCP to programs in a SCREEN COBOL library
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Copy programs from one SCREEN COBOL library to another
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Delete programs from a SCREEN COBOL library
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Reclaim file space by compressing SCREEN COBOL library files
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Convert a group of programs in a SCREEN COBOL library into a web client
SCUP is described in the Compaq NonStop™ Pathway/iTS SCUP Reference Manual.
The Pathmaker Application Generator
The Pathmaker product helps you create Pathway applications consisting of requester
programs written in SCREEN COBOL and server programs written in C or COBOL85.
To create applications with the Pathmaker product, you:
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Enter information about your application into a series of screen-based entry forms,
which the Pathmaker product then stores in a catalog
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Use the text editor TEDIT to create source files containing C or COBOL85 service
code
At your command, the Pathmaker product uses the information from the catalog and the
TEDIT file to generate SCREEN COBOL requester code, C or COBOL85 server code,
and command files to configure and start the finished Pathway environment for testing.
The Pathmaker product simplifies the creation of Pathway applications by:
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Generating application code in a uniform structure for all requesters and servers, to
help simplify maintenance and modification
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Producing program statements for tasks that are specific to Pathway
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Automatically generating TMF statements in your requester programs when you
indicate that you want your programs to have TMF protection
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Providing a central location for most application information
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Creating error-handling code for the most commonly encountered errors
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Letting you simulate application screens and navigate from one application screen to
another before you write a single line of code
Applications developed with the Pathmaker product can access data from databases
managed by either the NonStop™ SQL/MP relational database management system or
the Enscribe database record manager. If you are using Pathsend requesters, or clients
that use RSC/MP, you can use the Pathmaker tool to create prototype servers.