TRANSFER Programming Manual

About This Manual
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The TRANSFER Programming Guide describes how you write application programs
that use the TRANSFER delivery system for information delivery on Tandem NonStop
systems. Such programs cooperate with the TRANSFER delivery system in moving
information throughout a single computer system or a network of distributed systems.
The programs typically run under the PATHWAY transaction processing system and
use the services of the Transaction Monitoring Facility (TMF) to ensure transaction
consistency.
Who Should Use This
Manual
This manual is intended for application programmers who are writing programs that
use the features of the TRANSFER delivery system. The information in this manual is
intended for application developers experienced with the GUARDIAN 90 operating
system, PATHWAY, and the Transaction Monitoring Facility (TMF). This manual
does not try to teach programming methodology or techniques, and assumes that you
have enough programming expertise to determine from the information presented
how to use the TRANSFER delivery system properly.
How This Manual Is
Organized
Information in this manual is organized as follows:
Section 1 introduces you to TRANSFER features, components, and objects.
Section 2 presents the components of a TRANSFER application.
Section 3 describes TRANSFER objects.
Section 4 describes conventions for naming TRANSFER objects.
Section 5 discusses TRANSFER units of work (UOWs).
Section 6 describes how to request X400 services.
Section 7 describes national language support and character map support.
Section 8 describes how to develop application programs that use TRANSFER.
Section 9 describes how to develop a TRANSFER client and contains a sample
client program.
Section 10 describes how to develop a TRANSFER agent and contains a sample
agent program.
Section 11 contains a sample TRANSFER program.
Appendix A presents conventions for application interface.
Appendix B describes processes running outside of PATHWAY.
Appendix C describes the standard TRANSFER base (canonical) character set.
Appendix D describes the standard TRANSFER name character set.
The Glossary contains definitions for TRANSFER terminology.