Pathway/iTS TCP and Terminal Programming Guide

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Compaq NonStop™ Pathway/iTS
TCP and Terminal Programming
Guide
Index Examples Figures Tables
What’s New in This Manual ix
Manual Information
ix
New and Changed Information
ix
About This Manual
xi
Who Should Read This Manual
xi
Related Documentation
xi
Your Comments Invited
xii
Notation Conventions
xiii
1. Introduction to TCP and Terminal Application Programming
Advantages of the Pathway Environment 1-2
Ease of Development
1-2
Manageability
1-3
Data Integrity
1-4
Fault Tolerance
1-4
Other Fundamentals of NonStop™ Himalaya Systems
1-5
Pathway Applications
1-7
Servers and Server Classes
1-7
Requesters
1-8
Client/Server Capabilities
1-10
Other Transaction Processing Environments
1-10
Development Tools and Utilities
1-11
Programming Languages and Related Tools
1-11
The Inspect Symbolic Debugger
1-11
The SCREEN COBOL Utility Program (SCUP)
1-11
The Pathmaker Application Generator
1-12
The Enable Product
1-13