TRANSFER Installation and Management Guide

Glossary
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TCHECK utility. A program you run regularly to locate and adjust inconsistencies in the
TRANSFER data files.
TCP. Terminal control process.
Text server (TEXTSRV). A TRANSFER server that stores and retrieves various kinds of
text. For instance, the text server handles such input text as command words and their
abbreviations, keywords, and the names of objects. It also handles such output text as
prompts, screen field labels, error messages, and help information. The text server, in
addition, performs various character mapping functions. For example, it manages the
transformation of characters from external to internal format.
TFRONT pseudo-terminal. TRANSFER receiver front end. The number of TFRONT
pseudo-terminals that you define, in conjunction with your definition of the TRECV
server class, determines the number of simultaneous incoming network operations
that can be active at a single time. The TRECV server class must be defined to have at
least one member for each TFRONT pseudo-terminal you define.
TIME queue. One of the four queues for which TSAMPLE collects—at configurable
intervals—counts of work scheduled. The TIME queue contains requests scheduled
for later processing, such as deferred deliveries and messages that are automatically
deleted after a set interval.
TISERV. See TRANSFER interactive server.
TMANAGER. A Tandem application to help system managers run their TRANSFER
delivery systems. TMANAGER consists of three parts: a screen interface that
provides monitoring, log control, and tracing capabilities at the local node; the
SMSERV database server for system management functions; and the TSAMPLE server,
which does asynchronous processing for TMANAGER, including queue and file
sampling and active alarm notification. TMANAGER can be accessed through
ADMIN or run as a standalone PATHWAY program.
Traffic logging. The record of how much network traffic TRANSFER generates. The
TRANSFER TWORK and TRECV processes write network traffic information to the
traffic log file you configure.
Transaction Monitoring Facility (TMF). A data management product that maintains the
consistency of a database and provides the tools for database recovery.
TRANSFER. A high-level software product that supports communications between
people, input-output devices, and processes.
_TRANSFER_. The name of the TRANSFER asynchronous requester depot. Messages
from the TRANSFER system are identified by _TRANSFER_.
TRANSFER application. A set of processes that communicate with each other and with
TRANSFER and work together to perform a common task.