TRANSFER Installation and Management Guide

5 Defining a TRANSFER System
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Overview When you define your TRANSFER system, you provide the information from which
your TRANSFER system is initialized and configured. The information in the
definition is processed by programs that generate files you use to install and control
the system.
To define a TRANSFER system, you must enter configuration information in define
files. The source for a define file is a default file provided with the installation
procedures. These procedures provide one default file for each TRANSFER system
component. Each file contains parameter names, parameter values, and comments.
Appendix A contains all the TRANSFER default files.
As explained in Section 4, the default define files are in your user-DSV and have
special file names. To create a define file, you copy the default file and edit it. When
editing, you can change or keep process names and quantities, delete parameters, and
add parameters.
The default files provide parameter values for a small test system. By using the
default values provided and by entering specific information for your system in the
define files, you tailor a definition of a TRANSFER system that meets your specific
needs.
After you have created and edited all of the define files, you run the definition
programs, which use define files as input, and other installation programs described in
Section 6, “System Installation Procedures.”
The define files provide for a common range of parameter values for TRANSFER
systems. If a definition results in a PATHWAY configuration that is not appropriate
for your site, you can make changes by customizing TRANSFER as described in
Section 7 “Customizing a TRANSFER System.”
This section explains how to create define files from the defaults files. It also gives the
parameters, the process names, the quantities, and certain conventions with which you
need to be familiar.