Pathway/XM System Management Manual

Configuring Clients and Requesters

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Setting Process Priority

As described in Section 2, the PRI attribute of the NODE object allows you to set a

default base process priority value for the various types of processes in your

Pathway/XM environment, including TCPs. However, for TCPs created with a specific

TCP template, you can override the PRI setting in the associated client NODE object by

specifying the PRI attribute in the SET TCP statement.

In general, priorities should facilitate the completion of work over the arrival of work.

Usually, this means that server classes should have a higher priority than TCP objects. If

there are multiple server classes in a transaction path, however, and the SCREEN

COBOL code is simple, continuing a transaction with multiple server classes might

mean waiting for TCP availability.