SCF Reference Manual for G-Series RVUs (G06.27+)

SCF Reference Manual for G-Series RVUs—520413-005
Glossary-1
Glossary
action. An operation that can be performed on a selected resource.
ADAPTER object type. The Subsystem Control Facility (SCF) object type for all adapters
attached to your system.
ALLPROCESSORS paragraph. A required paragraph in the CONFTEXT configuration file
that contains attributes defining the HP NonStop Kernel operating system image for all
system processors. The ALLPROCESSORS paragraph follows the optional DEFINES
paragraph.
ASSIGN. A TACL command you can use to associate a file name with a logical file of a
program, or to assign a physical device to logical entities that an application uses.
assign message. Within Subsystem Control Facility (SCF), a message created by SCF for
each ASSIGN command. A new process must request its assign message following
receipt of the startup message. All assign messages set by the SCF ASSIGN
command, plus the ones read from the TACL command interpreter, are passed to the
new process.
assumed object. The object type or object name specified by a Subsystem Control Facility
(SCF) ASSUME command. If an ASSUME command has been used to establish a
default object type and fully qualified default object name, and if that object type and
object name together refer to a valid object, then object-spec can be omitted
entirely from an SCF command, and the command is applied to the object known as
the assumed object.
attribute. (1) For the Subsystem Control Facility (SCF), a characteristic of an entity. For
example, two attributes of a process might be its program file and its user ID. An
attribute is sometimes called a modifier. (2) In OSM and TSM client interfaces, a data
item associated with a system or cluster resource. All attributes can be viewed, and
some can be modified.
bit-synchronous. A type of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Layer-2 protocol that uses
synchronous transmission but does not require a character code to define terminal and
line control sequences.
byte-synchronous. A type of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Layer-2 protocol that
uses synchronous transmission techniques and requires a character code to define
terminal and line control sequences. Data is always transmitted in a block.
CLIP. See communications line interface processor (CLIP).
CMI. See Communications Management Interface (CMI).