User Manual

Preparing Programs

HP NonStop AutoTMF Software User’s Guide—429952-014

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Preparing Programs

Preparation does not invalidate object-file acceleration or SQL compilation, nor does

preparation change binder or linker attributes such as HIGHPIN, HIGHREQUESTERS,

INSPECT, and so on, or the Binder time stamp or the size of the object file.

However, preparation removes LICENSE attribute of an object file, unless one of 2

conditions are met:

•

the PREPARE is performed by SUPER.SUPER, or

•

the Escort CI procedure CALLABLE^SET^LICENSE is made callable, as described

in Preserving License Attribute when Preparing Privileged Programs below.

The NonStop AutoTMF runtime user library or DLL contains routines that intercept the

retargeted system calls. User libraries or DLLs do not increase the size of the object

file and are shared in virtual memory by all processes that use them. To upgrade

versions of NonStop AutoTMF software, the runtime library or DLL may be replaced

whenever the program is not running.

If your application programs have user libraries, you should prepare these user

libraries first, then prepare the application programs. The preparation of a program will

fail if the referenced user library has not been prepared; this arrangement eliminates

many errors that might occur if you could prepare a program that referenced an

unprepared user library.

Preparing Programs

Using the PREPARE Command

The PREPARE command processes an object file and updates the procedure identifier

lists to rename references to selected system procedures, such as READ and

FILEINFO, and to NonStop AutoTMF runtime library procedures, such as R^^D and

F^L^^NFO. Renamed procedure names are the same length as the corresponding file

system procedure name, but have all internal vowels changed to the caret (^)

character. Use INFO PREPARE to display a complete list of names.

The PREPARE

command will process collections (that is, file sets) of object files. To

use PREPARE, you must have write access to the object files. The command changes

the object files, so you may wish to retain backup copies of the object files until you

have tested the prepared programs.

The following sample terminal session shows PREPARE

used on a single object file:

9> escort

HP Nonstop(tm) AutoTMF(tm) Command Interpreter(T0581V03) - System \RDF10

AutoTMF 1? prepare data.myobj.batchobj;

--- $DATA.MYOBJ.BATCHOBJ preparation complete

--- AutoTMF runtime library $SYSTEM.ESCORT.ESCRUNTM

AutoTMF 2?