Safeguard Management Programming Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

Glossary
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qualified token code
qualified token code. A token code that includes a subsystem ID.
requester version. The software revision level of the definition files used in the compilation
of a requester. Each subsystem has its own definitions, so the requester version can
differ in requests to different subsystems.
response. The information or confirmation supplied by a subsystem in reaction to a
command. A response is typically conveyed as one or more interprocess messages
(response messages) from a subsystem to an application.
response-control token. A parameter token or response token that influences or reflects
how a subsystem packages its response to a command. Response-control tokens are
defined by SPI rather than by subsystems. They include the maximum-response token,
the response-type token, and the context token.
response message. An SPI message that is sent from a subsystem to an application
program in reaction to a command message. See SPI message and command
message.
response record. A set of response tokens, usually describing the results of performing a
command on one object. A response can consist of multiple response records, spread
across one or more response messages. A response message always contains a
whole number of response records. (That is, a response record cannot be split
between two messages.) If there are multiple response records in a response
message, each response record is enclosed in a data list. See data list. Each response
record is required to contain a return token. See return token.
response token. A token returned as an element of a response. Response tokens include
information tokens (which contain response data of interest to the application), syntax
tokens (such as list tokens), one special response-control token (the context token),
the return token, and error tokens.
return token. The response token that indicates whether a command was successful and
why it failed if it did. Every response record in a response from a subsystem for a
NonStop server contains a return token. A response record can also contain error lists
that include error tokens. The token code for the return token is ZSPI-TKN-RETCODE.
Its value consists of a single integer field. See also error token.
routine. A sequence of TACL commands and built-in functions that can perform complex
argument interpretation. A routine can interpret an item in its argument string
depending on previous arguments or on the results of any function or program
executed before the argument item is read. Routines construct their own expansions
through the use of the built-in function #RESULT. When the routine name is given to
TACL, the arguments that the routine uses with #RESULT are substituted for the
name. A routine can have a null expansion. See also macro
.
SCF. Abbreviation for Subsystem Control Facility
.
SCP. Abbreviation for Subsystem Control Point.