SNAX Creator-2 Configuration and Control Manual

Configuring SNAX Creator-2 Objects
Startup and Configuration of SNAX Creator-2
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In addition to the CPUS, MAXARGS, MINARGS, and SYSTEM attributes, when the
METHOD of the APPL object is SERVER, the following attributes are supported:
SERVER, which lists the names of one or more running server processes. If the
server process is on a different node from SNAX Creator-2, the node name must
be included.
MESSAGE, which specifies a message to be sent to the server process. The
message can consist of fixed text, text extracted from the Program Start Request by
means of built-in functions, or a combination of fixed and extracted text.
Appendix C, “Configuration Examples,” includes a configuration example for a
server-started application.
Configuring Pathway Applications
For Pathway applications, SNAX Creator-2 allows dynamic selection of the name of a
Pathway PROGRAM object (which is a template for a SCREEN COBOL requester
program) and of the PATHMON POCESS. To allow for this, you must configure the
PATHMON environment to have multiple copies of the same SCREEN COBOL
requester. Each copy should be assigned to a different terminal control process (TCP)
and given a different name. SNAX Creator-2 distributes the load across the TCPs by
selecting from a set of Pathway PROGRAM object names listed in the SNAX Creator-2
PROGRAM attribute each time a request is received for this Pathway application.
In addition to supporting the CPUS, MAXARGS, MINARGS, and SYSTEM attributes,
when the METHOD attribute of the APPL object is PATHWAY, the following attributes
are required:
PATHMON, which is a set of running PATHMON processes, one of which is
selected for use.
PROGRAM, which is a set of Pathway PROGRAM object names, one of which is
selected as the program to start.
The following additional attributes are optional:
PRINTER, which specifies the printer that is assigned to the running program; this
attribute overrides the PATHMON default.
PROCESS, which specifies a set of operational processes that can interface between
the Pathway/TS TCP and the access method, one of which is selected as the
interfacing process. An example of such a process is Extended General Device
Support (GDSX), a product that supports nonstandard terminal devices. The TCP
opens the process, which then opens the access method. This process must be
running on the same Tandem node as the access method.