Compaq ACMS for OpenVMS
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A
Access Control List
    and task-call-task
ACMS$LOCAL_TDMS_IN_AGENT logical
ACMS$PROCESSING_STATUS workspace
    contains status values
Agent program
    ACMS-supplied
    coordinating distributed transaction from
Application
    deciding number of
    design
        business objectives in
    design issues
    development cycle #1
    development cycle #2
    form design for
    guidelines for programming
    performance #1
    performance #2
Application Execution Controller
APPLICATION LOGICAL NAME clause
Application programming
    suggestions
Atomic units
    of work
Attributes
    defined
Availability
    specified in requirements analysis
B
Block steps
    coordinating distributed transaction from
Business activities
    and transactions
    defining
    effect on task design
Business areas
    defining
Business functions
    defining
    identifying transactions within
    mapped to AVERTZ tasks
    relationship to tasks
C
Cancel actions
    performance considerations
CMS
    See Code Management System
Code Management System
    application development tool
Command Process
    alternatives
Conditional
    processing
        for task flow control
    work
        complex processing
D
Data
    remote
        choosing access for
Data Manipulation Language
    use of precompiled statements
Data type
    conversion #1
    conversion #2
Database
    design
        relationship to application design
Database transaction
    defined
Databases
    attributes
    binding and opening
    entities
    relationships
DCL
    commands
        for TDMS
    servers
        See also Servers
DEC/Code Management System
    See Code Management System
DEC/Module Management System
    See Module Management System
DEC Software Engineering Tools
    for application development
DEC/Test Manager
    application development tool
DECforms
    ACMS default form presentation service
    and ACMS
    choosing number of forms
    field validation
    performance
        considerations
        issues
    structure and design
DECset
    See DEC Software Engineering Tools
DECtp Implementation Toolkit
    application development tool
Design
    documents
    modular
    of database
    of software
    user interface
Development cycle
    for ACMS
Distributed forms processing
    and task queues
    benefits of
Distributed transactions
    choosing remote access
    coordinating
        from agent
        from block step
        from processing step
        from step procedure
        from tasks
    defined
    for multiple databases
    tracking #1
    tracking #2
    where coordinated from
DTM
    See DEC/Test Manager
E
Entities
    defined
    relationships between
EXC
    See Application Execution Controller
Exception handling
    in ACMS
    types of exceptions
Exchange steps
    defined by business activities
    in transactions
F
Fields
    validation
        performance considerations #1
        performance considerations #2
Flow control
    in tasks
Forms
    design
        data type conversion #1
        data type conversion #2
        performance considerations
        scrolled regions
        trade-offs in
        use of data types other than text #1
        use of data types other than text #2
        use of forms product other than DECforms
    I/O
        access to presentation service
Functional analysis
    for ACMS design
    requirements for TP system
Functional Specification
    for ACMS design #1
    for ACMS design #2
    for identifying transactions
G
Group
    workspace type #1
    workspace type #2
H
Handling errors
    passing status in workspaces
L
Language-Sensitive Editor
    application development tool
Locks
    See Records, locks
LSE
    See Language-Sensitive Editor
M
Memory
    usage
Menu
    customizing
MMS
    See Module Management System
Modular design
    of ACMS applications
    of tasks
Module Management System
    application development tool
Multiple-step tasks
    design of user interface
    memory usage
    performance considerations
    processing by ACMS run-time
N
Naming
    procedures
        guidelines
Nested blocks
    for task flow control
Nonrecoverable exceptions
    type of exception
O
Oracle Trace
    logging performance events
    tracking distributed transactions #1
    tracking distributed transactions #2
P
PCA
    See Performance and Coverage Analyzer
Performance
    application design
        form design #1
        form design #2
        form design #3
        multiple-step tasks #1
        multiple-step tasks #2
        releasing server context
        reusable procedure servers
        reusable servers
        workspace design
    application design issues
    DECforms issues
    logging performance events with Oracle Trace
    releasing server context #1
    releasing server context #2
    Request Interface issues
    specified in requirements analysis
    Systems Interface issues
    task group
    TDMS issues
    with distributed forms processing
Performance and Coverage Analyzer
    application development tool
PEU
    use of I/O within
Presentation services
    for ACMS
Procedures
    coordinating distributed transaction from
    designing
    grouping in servers
    guidelines for writing #1
    guidelines for writing #2
    initialization
        advantages of
    servers
        See also Servers
    uses of
Processing
    deferred
        of ACMS tasks
    with task queue
Processing immediacy
    for each business function
    specified in requirements analysis
Processing steps
    coordinating distributed transaction from
    locking records for RMS update tasks
    performance considerations
Programming
    considerations
Programming Specification
    for ACMS design #1
    for ACMS design #2
    identifying ACMS components in


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