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Compaq Computer Corporation — 425199-001 i OSI/FTAM Responder Manual Glossary Index Figures Tables What’s New in This Manual v Manual Information v New and Changed Information v About This Manual vii Supported Standards viii Related Manuals ix Your Comments Invited x Notation Conventions xi 1. Intro...
Contents OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 ii 3. Compaq FTAM Responder Operation 3. Compaq FTAM Responder Operation Responder Structure 3-1 Responder Data Flow 3-2 4. Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions Supported Functions 4-1 Service Classes 4-1 Functional Units 4-2 Attribute G...
Contents OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 iii 6. Responder Manager 6. Responder Manager Notes on Configuration 6-1 OSI Address of Responder 6-1 Initiator-Identity and Filestore-Password Parameters 6-2 Protocol-Error Counter 6-2 Increasing Responder Capacity 6-2 Increasing Responder Performance...
Contents OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 iv Tables (continued) Tables (continued) Table 4-7. Select-Open Mappings: Compaq File Structure to FTAM Contents Type 4-8 Table 4-8. Actions Permitted for FTAM Document Type 4-12 Table 4-9. Simplification of Document Types Supported by the Compaq FTAM ...
OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 v What’s New in This Manual Manual Information Abstract This manual describes the operation of the Compaq Open Systems Interconnection/File Transfer, Access and Management (OSI/FTAM) responder and its virtual filestore (VFS). It is for programmers and users who...
OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 vii About This Manual The OSI/FTAM Responder Manual provides instructions and reference information needed to write application programs, or to use interactive applications, that use the services of the Compaq OSI/File Transfer, Access and Management (FTAM) res...
About This Manual OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 viii Supported Standards Supported Standards This manual and the other Compaq FTAM manuals are written on the assumption that you are familiar with the ISO standards and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) FTAM Phase 2 ag...
About This Manual OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 ix Related Manuals Related Manuals This manual is one in a set of Compaq FTAM manuals. • OSI/FTAM Programming Guide . This manual explains important programming concepts pertaining to the Compaq FTAM application programmatic interface and desc...
About This Manual OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 x Your Comments Invited If you are diagnosing and solving FTAM problems using tools on the Compaq system where your responder resides, you also need to refer to the following manuals: the OSI/FTAM Configuration and Management Manual and the SC...
About This Manual OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 xi Notation Conventions Notation Conventions General Syntax Notation The following list summarizes the notation conventions for syntax presentation in this manual. UPPERCASE LETTERS. Uppercase letters indicate keywords and reserved words; ente...
About This Manual OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 xii General Syntax Notation An ellipsis immediately following a single syntax item indicates that you can repeat that syntax item any number of times. For example: "s-char..." Punctuation. Parentheses, commas, semicolons, and other sym...
About This Manual OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 xiii Notation for Messages !o:i. In procedure calls, the !o:i notation follows an output buffer parameter that has a corresponding input parameter specifying the maximum length of the output buffer in bytes. For example: error := FILE_GETINFO_...
About This Manual OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 xiv Notation for Management Programming Interfaces either vertically, with aligned braces on each side of the list, or horizontally, enclosed in a pair of braces and separated by vertical lines. For example: obj-type obj-name state changed to ...
OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 1 -1 1 Introduction to the Compaq FTAM Responder This manual describes the Compaq Open Systems Interconnection/File Transfer, Access and Management (OSI/FTAM) responder and its virtual filestore ( VFS ). Compaq OSI/FTAM is the Compaq implementation of the FTAM ...
Introduction to the Compaq FTAM Responder OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 1 - 2 Compaq FTAM Services FTAM users communicate with the FTAM service provider by way of primitives , the smallest units of interaction between the FTAM user and the FTAM service provider. An operation like any of tho...
Introduction to the Compaq FTAM Responder OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 1 - 3 FTAM Applications responder, you use the standard FTAM file-handling conventions to perform remote file-handling tasks, by means of the FTAM interface on your remote system. Each FTAM service, or file operation, r...
Introduction to the Compaq FTAM Responder OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 1 - 4 Management Interfaces Management Interfaces For those people with access to the Compaq system who are responsible for configuring and managing FTAM responder processes and for solving FTAM problems, Compaq FTAM su...
Introduction to the Compaq FTAM Responder OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 1 - 6 The Responder and Underlying Subsystems PDUs from a remote FTAM initiator are received by the Compaq system at the Physical Layer and are transmitted up through the appropriate communications controller (or adapte...
Introduction to the Compaq FTAM Responder OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 1 - 7 The Responder and the File System The Responder and the File System Figure 1-2 also shows the file system used by the Compaq responder to access files. When a remote FTAM initiator requests access to files, the Co...
OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 2 - 1 2 Conformance and Interoperatility This section presents information about the conformance to standards and the interoperability of the Compaq FTAM responder. Conformance is the satisfaction of the requirements of the applicable standards, consistent with...
Conformance and Interoperatility OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 2 - 3 Limitations on Value of Future-Filesize Attribute Attributes Aspects of attributes that can affect interoperability include the optional groups of attributes, the level of support for each individual attribute (see Table 4...
Conformance and Interoperatility OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 2 - 4 Data-Transfer Considerations Maximum-String-Length Parameter Compaq FTAM supports unbounded strings. The limitations of the maximum-string-length parameter are described in detail in Section 4. String-Significance Paramete...
Conformance and Interoperatility OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 2 - 5 Data-Transfer Considerations Limits on Small String-Length Values With Large PDUs When the Compaq FTAM responder receives data from a remote initiator, it decodes the data and stores it, as a sequence of strings, in an int...
Conformance and Interoperatility OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 2 - 6 Presentation Encoding of FTAM PDUs and Data For FTAM-3 files, keep in mind that the native character sets (ASCII, EBCDIC, and so on) might be incompatible on the sending and receiving systems. For example, Compaq systems u...
OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 3 - 1 3 Compaq FTAM Responder Operation The Compaq responder receives an FTAM request from an initiating system, processes it, performs the appropriate action, and returns an FTAM response to the initiating system. It performs file-handling operations through i...
Compaq FTAM Responder Operation OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 3 - 2 Responder Data Flow Responder Data Flow Protocol and user data generally flows to and from the Compaq responder in the steps described below. Note that the responder sends primarily responses, although cancel and abort requ...
Compaq FTAM Responder Operation OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 3 - 3 Responder Data Flow 2. The FTAM initiator follows the OSI protocol established on the initiating system to send the outgoing FTAM protocol data unit (PDU) over the network to the Compaq responding system, where it is receiv...
OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 1 4 Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions This section provides detailed information on the Compaq FTAM responder’s support of ISO FTAM functions. It includes the following information: • FTAM functions supported by the Compaq responder • Virt...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 2 Functional Units Functional Units Table 4-2 identifies the FTAM functional units that the Compaq responder process supports. The Compaq responder supports all ISO-defined functional units except the FADU...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 3 Attribute Support responder partially supports an attribute, it recognizes the attribute name as valid, but provides no value for it. In this case, any reference to that attribute yields the result that ...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 4 Document Types * In this context, full support applies to the contents type as a whole; it does not imply the support of all document types or all possible values of the parameters (maximum-string-length...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 5 Mapping Between FTAM Contents Types and Compaq File Structures FTAM-2 files are relative (sequential) files, and each logical record of a relative file can be a maximum of 4072 bytes. Each string is stor...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 6 Create Mappings fall within the range supported by the Compaq responder for that document type and string-significance value, as follows: If the maximum-string-length parameter is not specified or if the...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 7 Select-Open Mappings ∗ The following values are possible for file type: U = Enscribe unstructuredR = Enscribe relativeE = Enscribe entry-sequenced ∗∗ This is the standard Guardian file attribute that sta...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 8 Select-Open Mappings When you issue a file-open request, you specify a contents-type parameter that provides the document type of the file and, optionally, parameter values that further define the docume...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 10 Maximum-String-Length Checking of Data Values Maximum-String-Length Checking of Data Values The responder enforces strict rules on maximum-string-length checking. Every data value received or sent by th...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 11 File-Attribute Mappings strings may require you to increase the value of the maximum-string-length parameter in your requests. The following formula defines the conditions under which decoded data will ...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 12 Kernel Group File Attributes Filename Attribute The filename attribute maps directly from the Compaq external file name to the FTAM VFS, with the exception of specifying NBS-9 files. For an explanation ...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 13 Kernel Group File Attributes The responder allows for the simplification of FTAM-2 document types to FTAM-1 document types only. In addition, FTAM-2 simplification is allowed only on Compaq Enscribe rel...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 14 Kernel Group File Attributes You can specify DIRLIS with volume or subvolume in any of the following ways: • $ volume . subvol .DIRLIS • $ volume .DIRLIS • subvol .DIRLIS • DIRLIS Each NBS-9 document ha...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 15 Storage Group File Attributes request primitive. This allows you to specify all or a subset of the attributes listed above. (Likewise, to control which attributes the responder returns when you read the...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 16 Storage Group File Attributes filesize parameter is not specified in a create request, the responder creates a file with a future-filesize value of 8 MB. Subsequent change-attribute requests can change ...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 17 Security Group File Attributes Security Group File Attributes The remote responder and local initiator negotiate security attributes. The responder fully supports some security attributes while only par...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 18 Security Group File Attributes which access to a file is allowed. ISO 8571-2 provides a complete description of the ISO FTAM access-control attribute. Within the access-control attribute, the Compaq res...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 19 Security Group File Attributes If the access-control attribute is not present in the F-CREATE indication, the Compaq responder sets Compaq file security to the default security allowed for the FTAM asso...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 20 Security Group File Attributes • If any of the insert, replace, extend, change-attribute, or erase access-control bits of the action list are set, the responder sets WRITE access to N, indicating that a...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 21 Private Group File Attributes The read-attribute bit is always set. Legal-Qualifications Attribute The legal-qualifications attribute conveys information about the legal status of the file and its use. ...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 22 File-Access and Security Considerations Table 4-16 shows which optional parameters the Compaq responder can return in a response PDU. File-Access and Security Considerations The VFS controls access to f...
Compaq FTAM Responder Support of ISO FTAM Functions OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 4 - 23 File-Access and Security Considerations password. For details on configuring a default user, refer to the OSI/FTAM Configuration and Management Manual . The VFS actions allowed by the FTAM responder dep...
OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 5 - 1 5 Suggestions for Development of Remote Applications When you write an FTAM application that uses the services of the Compaq responder, how you design, code, and debug it depends largely on the interface you are using on the remote system. However, there ...
Suggestions for Development of Remote Applications OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 5 - 2 Troubleshooting The Compaq FTAM responder returns diagnostic messages to your application as specified by the ISO 8571 standard. In many cases, more information is returned than is required by the standar...
OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 6 - 1 6 Responder Manager This section discusses considerations that are related to the configuration and management of the responder process and its VFS on the Compaq system, but that you might need to know when writing or using FTAM applications on the remote...
Responder Manager OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 6 - 2 Initiator-Identity and Filestore-Password Parameters Initiator-Identity and Filestore-Password Parameters The initiator-identity and filestore-password parameters in the F-INITIALIZE request correspond, respectively, to the Guardian user...
Responder Manager OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 6 - 3 Event Messages If the Compaq FTAM responder process is running as a NonStop process pair, the backup Compaq FTAM responder process takes over, and your remote application must reinitiate its Compaq FTAM associations. You or your applicat...
OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 1 A Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages The Compaq FTAM responder diagnostic messages can be returned in indications and confirms to an initiating FTAM implementation that requested the Compaq FTAM responder to execute a service that it cannot perform...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 2 General FTAM Diagnostic Messages The detailed descriptions of the diagnostic messages that follow each summary table are also listed numerically by the error identifier. In addition to the information provided in ...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 3 General FTAM Diagnostic Messages Effect. The responder aborts the association. If the data buffer capacity was exceeded for the reason given under “Cause,” the Further Details field contains the message smaller PD...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 4 Protocol and Supporting Service-Related Diagnostic Messages Recovery. The application or FTAM user should retry the operation. This can be a transient condition. If the condition persists, the Compaq problem solve...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 5 Protocol and Supporting Service-Related Diagnostic Messages 1001 Cause. A request contained a parameter value that the Compaq FTAM responder did not support: for example, the override parameter did not equal one o...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 6 Protocol and Supporting Service-Related Diagnostic Messages 1009 Cause. The responder received a service request that requires a functional unit that was not negotiated when the association was established. Effect...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 7 Association-Related Diagnostic Messages access is less than the number of services in the group. (Only the file-access service class allows a threshold of less than the number of services in the group, allowing a ...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 9 Association-Related Diagnostic Messages 2015 Cause. The initiator-identity parameter in the initialize request was invalid, or it was omitted and there was no default user ID/password configured for the responder....
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 10 Selection-Related Diagnostic Messages Effect. The association is not established. The responder generates the password-fail event (event number 20). Recovery. For the first cause, the application or FTAM user sho...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 11 Selection-Related Diagnostic Messages 3000 Cause. The file requested on the select service could not be found. File-system error 11 was returned. Effect. The service fails. Recovery. The application or FTAM user ...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 13 Selection-Related Diagnostic Messages 3007 Cause. The application or FTAM user attempted to delete a directory list (NBS-9), or the PURGE procedure has failed. Effect. The file is not deleted. The Further Details...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 14 Selection-Related Diagnostic Messages 3018 Cause. The application or FTAM user attempted to create a file with a future-filesize value greater than one gigabyte. The Compaq FTAM responder does not support files l...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 15 Selection-Related Diagnostic Messages 3027 Cause. An invalid value was detected in an attribute on the create or select service. This message is caused if the filename attribute cannot be decoded or is invalid fo...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 16 File-Management-Related Diagnostic Messages Effect. The file is created, but not selected. The state-result parameter of the create confirm returns a failure indication. Recovery. The application or FTAM user sho...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 17 Access-Related Diagnostic Messages 4003 Cause. Either a read-attribute request including the private attributes was issued, or an attempt was made to change an attribute that cannot be changed. Compaq FTAM does n...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 18 Access-Related Diagnostic Messages 5000 Cause. The FADU-ID parameter on a read or write request is invalid. Effect. The responder cancels the service, and the association is left in a data-transfer idle state. Re...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 19 Access-Related Diagnostic Messages 5001 Cause. The application or FTAM user tried to access a nonexistent column in an SQL table. Effect. The responder cancels the service, and the association is left in a data-t...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 20 Access-Related Diagnostic Messages 5005 Cause. The responder received a read or erase request for an empty FTAM-2 relative file. Effect. In the case of a read, the responder cancels the service. In the case of an...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 21 Access-Related Diagnostic Messages 5015 Cause. Either the VFS has attempted to open a file, but the operating system OPEN procedure has failed, or a write request has been issued without the FADU operation set to...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 22 Access-Related Diagnostic Messages Effect. The responder cancels the service, and the association is left in a data-transfer idle state. Recovery. The application or FTAM user should issue a cancel response and t...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 23 Access-Related Diagnostic Messages file recovery operations normally used at the site; then the application or FTAM user can retry the application. 5028 Cause. A local file-system error occurred as a result of on...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 24 Access-Related Diagnostic Messages Recovery. The application or FTAM user should send a cancel response, close the file, and use the change-attribute service to increase the value of the future-filesize attribute...
Compaq FTAM Responder Diagnostic Messages OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 A - 25 Recovery-Related Diagnostic Messages 5040 Cause. The Compaq FTAM responder received a request with a FADU-lock parameter on a read or write service. The Compaq FTAM responder does not support the FADU-lock parame...
OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 1 Glossary The following glossary defines terms used both in this manual and in the other Compaq FTAM manuals. Not all terms listed here are used in this particular manual. abstract syntax. A standardized method of describing data structures that is ...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 2 (Application Layer) to manipulate files on remote computer systems. For Compaq FTAM, applications can be written in C or TAL. application entity. The part of an application process that interacts with its peer entity in a remote applicatio...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 3 ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation-1). The type and value syntax or notation language for representing semantics of protocol that is described in ISO 8824. The Basic Encoding Rules (ISO 8825) standard defines a set of encoding rules that can ...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 4 code file. A Guardian file containing the object code that you must run to create the specified process. collector An EMS process that accepts event messages from subsystems and logs them in the event log. See EMS. Compare distributor. com...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 5 protocol implementation conformance statement (PICS). Static conformance requirements are constraints specified in the standards or related profiles to facilitate interworking. Dynamic conformance requirements determine what observable beh...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 6 (FUP) commands, and generates object-definition source code in a variety of programming languages. default user (DEFUSER). An attribute of a Compaq virtual filestore (VFS) profile that allows access to files in the Compaq responder’s VFS i...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 7 Enscribe. The Compaq database file-management software provided as part of the Guardian file system. The Enscribe software provides access to—and manipulation of—records in a database on a Compaq system. Files on a Compaq NonStop system ca...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 8 occurrence of a condition that might affect its operation. Event messages are collected centrally and distributed to files, processes, and terminals that are programmed to receive them. They are displayed in text form as operator messages....
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 9 encountered in accessing the file on the demountable device. The attribute value is set when a file is created. file-management service class. A service class that permits control of the virtual filestore through a series of independent co...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 10 first-level data types. The lowest-level DDL structures, which serve as building blocks on which DDL parameter structures are based. format effectors. A class of control characters mainly intended for layout and positioning of information...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 11 Compaq max-extents attribute: modifying the future-filesize attribute changes the max-extents attribute, and vice versa. GeneralString. The character-string type of strings containing any of the characters for all G sets and all C sets (a...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 12 • There are no restrictions on the number of levels, on the arc lengths, or on the number of arcs originating from each node. The access unit, or subtree, of a node in this model is called a file-access data unit (FADU). FTAM-2 files have...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 14 management interface. An interface available to the system manager for use in configuring, monitoring, and controlling subsystems and relationships between subsystems. Manager process. A Compaq subsystem process with which the Subsystem C...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 15 Network service access point. See NSAP. network service provider. See NSP. NIST (National Institute of Science and Technology). A U.S. government institution, formerly known as the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), that sets standards a...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 16 object identifier. A value, distinguishable from all other such values, that is associated with an ISO information object. A standard representation of an object identifier is a set of numbers representing a directed path through a standa...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 17 OSI Reference Model. A communications architecture, adopted by the ISO in 1984, that includes seven layers that define the functions involved in communications between two systems, the services required to perform these functions, and the...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 19 private group. A free-standing group of FTAM attributes that are outside the scope of OSI standardization. process. A running entity, managed by the Compaq NonStop Kernel, that is created by taking a program from a file on a disk and runn...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 20 The PSAP is highly system-dependent and generally refers to the way interlayer communication is accomplished. See also SAP. PSAP address. A presentation address that is used to identify a single PSAP. PSEL (presentation selector). A logic...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 21 required parameter. (1) In a protocol data unit (PDU), a parameter that is always present. (2) In a Compaq programmatic or interactive interface, a parameter to a procedure (for example, a procedure in the FTAM API) or to an interactive c...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 22 SCF (Subsystem Control Facility). A utility that provides a common, interactive management interface for configuring, controlling, and collecting information from Compaq data communications products. SCP (Subsystem Control Point). The pro...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 23 service user. An entity that uses services provided to it by a lower-layer entity. For example, the FTAM initiator is a service user of ACSE and presentation services provided by OSI/AS. Contrast service provider. session address. See SSA...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 26 also performs some management services in the DSM environment. See also NSP process and TSP process. TAPS subdevice. A subdevice, maintained by OSI/AS, that enables communication between an FTAM initiator or responder and the TAPS process...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 27 protocol (IP) of the Network Layer. TSP processes are provided by the underlying OSI/TS subsystem. See also NSP process and TAPS process. UA (unstructured all data units). An access context for which data is transferred as file-contents d...
Glossary OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Glossary - 28 warning. An information-only message returned by the system, indicating a possible problem. A warning can be significant, but does not cause the command or operation to fail. A warning is less serious than an error. Contrast with error. w...
OSI/FTAM Responder Manual — 425199-001 Index - 1 Index A Access context, not available (message 5024) A-21 Access contex, for writing FTAM-2 files 2-6 Access control inconsitent (message 3016) A-13 Access request violates ... (message 11) A-4 Accessing files diagnostic messages (5000 - 5040) A-18 Ac...
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