TRANSFER Installation and Management Guide

Name Generation for PATHWAY Objects
Defining a TRANSFER System
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Name Generation for
PATHWAY Objects
The installation procedures use a convention for generating multiple names for
terminals and TCPs for the PATHWAY system. You do not enter these names; the
names are assigned by the definition programs. These names, however, appear in files
that configure, start, and stop the PATHWAY system.
The definition programs use a base name for the object and append a number to the
base name, beginning with 1 and incrementing by 1 for each additional definition for
the object.
For example, assume a PATHWAY configuration with multiple PS MAIL 6530 TCPs.
The PS MAIL 6530 definition program generates TCPs with a PATHWAY object name
in the form:
M6530-TCP n
where n is a number.
If you configure one TCP, the generated name is M6530-TCP1. If you configure three
TCPs, the names generated are M6530-TCP1, M6530-TCP2, and M6530-TCP3.
Process Priority
Assignment
The Base TRANSFER define file contains minimum and maximum process priority
values that apply to all defined components. All definition programs use these
priority values in assigning the process priorities for all PATHWAY processes
configured in the TRANSFER system. The default configuration is designed to place
all servers used interactively at a higher priority than servers doing asynchronous
work, such as delivery.
The following rules apply to process priority values:
The maximum process priority (MAX) must be at least 9 greater than the
minimum process priority (MIN).
Any process priority value assigned by the definition programs is not less than
MIN nor greater than MAX.