TRANSFER Programming Manual

5 TRANSFER Services
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Clients and agents communicate with TRANSFER processes through the use of
interprocessor communication messages (IPCs). Within each IPC is a series of
TRANSFER units of work (UOWs). You construct a UOW for each service request; the
TRANSFER delivery system returns information in response UOWs. The TRANSFER
Reference Manual lists complete descriptions and syntax information for each UOW.
This section provides an overview of UOW capabilities.
UOWs are organized into the following functional areas:
Session control
Item handling (including whole item, named item, record handling, and item tree
operations)
Package handling (including submittal preparation, recipient list
definition, package delivery, and package receipt)
Folder manipulation
External-object manipulation
Character set and map support
TRANSFER configuration inquiry
Administration (including session, depot, distribution list, and name management
and depot statistics requests)
X400 services
National language support
Section 6 describes X400 services. Section 7 contains an overview of national language
support. The UOWs in the other functional areas listed above are summarized in the
following pages.
Sections 8, 9, and 10 describe how to develop applications that use these UOWs.