JPH04264662A - Online system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To manage the start time and termination time of an online and to easily obtain online response time by setting an execution management means and an execution supervisory file for a terminal controller. CONSTITUTION:When transmission data transmitted from a keyboard 12 to an electronic computer 5 is inputted, a transmission-side transmission means 311 transfers a terminal name, transmission time and transmission data to the execution management means 313, obtains continuous numbers, adds the terminal name and the continuous numbers to transmission data as execution supervisory data and transmits it to the electronic computer 5. The execution management means 313 registers the terminal name, the continuous numbers, transmission time and transmission data to a transmission-side execution supervisory file 41. When the electronic computer 5 receives transmission data from a terminal equipment 1 in a reception-side reception means 521, reception data is registered in a reception-side execution supervisory file 61 by including the effect that data is normally received with a program name as a key. A transmission-side reception means 312 similarly displays reception data from the electronic computer 5 with termination time in the terminal equipment 1.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an online system in which a terminal and a computer are connected via a communication line.

0002

[Prior Art] In the conventional online system processing between a terminal and a computer, internal processing time is managed within the computer, but after data is input from the terminal, a response is returned to the terminal. A stopwatch was used to measure the time it took to receive a response (online response).

[0003] In addition, input data input from a terminal device is processed as is by an electronic computer and a response is returned (a synchronous type of processing is used) (the same execution method is used for both short and long processing times). Ta).

0004

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the above-mentioned conventional online system between a terminal and a computer, the internal processing time of the computer is managed, but data is input from the terminal and the terminal does not respond. Information on the time required for a response to be returned (online response) is not managed by the terminal or computer, so when information is needed, it is necessary to collect the information using a stopwatch. Collecting information using a stopwatch like this requires human intervention, making it impossible to collect accurate data. In order to collect data from multiple terminals at the same time, stopwatches for the number of terminals are required. It is not possible to automatically collect only the necessary data. Online response time cannot be easily collected. There are drawbacks as mentioned above.

[0005] Furthermore, since the input data is processed in the electronic computer in synchronization with the input data and a response is returned, the terminal is occupied for a long time during processing that requires a long processing time. There is a drawback.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention provides a terminal having an input means for inputting information and a means for transmitting and receiving data to and from a controller of the terminal and the computer via a communication line of the computer. In an online system performed using a terminal controller having: a transmitting side transmitting means for adding execution monitoring data to transmission data input from the terminal to the terminal controller; and a transmitting side transmitting means for adding execution monitoring data to the received data input from the transmitting side transmitting means. receiving means for registering the executed execution monitoring data and data reception information in an execution monitoring file, removing the execution monitoring data and outputting the received data, and inputting the received data from the receiving means for synchronous processing. an asynchronous determining means for determining whether to perform synchronous processing or asynchronous processing; a receiving-side transmitting means for re-adding the execution monitoring data to data that has been processed synchronously or asynchronously and transmitting the resultant data; and receiving data transmitted by the receiving-side transmitting means. A sending side receiving means of the terminal controller receives the execution monitoring data and start information from the sending side sending means, receives the execution monitoring data and end information from the sending side receiving means, and stores the response time of the data in a sending side monitoring file. and an execution management means for writing.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an online system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The main parts of this online system include a terminal 1, a printer 2, a terminal controller 3, a sending file group 4, a computer 5, and a database file group 6. The terminal device 1 is composed of an input means of a keyboard 12 and an input/output means of a display 11.

[0010] The terminal controller 3 is a transmitting means 31 on the transmitting side.
1, a transmitting side receiving means 312, and an execution managing means 313. The sending side file group 4 is provided on an external storage device connected to the terminal controller 3, and consists of a sending side execution monitoring file 41.

The computer 5 includes a message management means 51, a receiving side receiving means 521, an asynchronization determining means 522,
The receiving side transmitting/receiving means 52 consists of a processing means 523 and a receiving side transmitting means 524, and the receiving side transmitting/receiving means 53 consists of an asynchronous extraction means 531, a receiving side transmitting means 532, and a processing means 533.

[0012] The database file group 6 is stored in the electronic computer 5.
is provided on an external storage device connected to the receiving side execution monitoring file 61 and the asynchronous execution management file 6.
2 and data 63.

Referring to FIG. 2, the sending side file group 4 is composed of a sending side execution monitoring file 41, and the sending side execution monitoring file 41 stores a plurality of entries with one entry being a combination of a terminal name and a serial number for each terminal. It is now possible to store the sending time, receiving time, and sending data.

Referring to FIG. 3, the database file group 6 is composed of a receiving side execution monitoring file 61 and an asynchronous execution management file 62, and the receiving side execution monitoring file 61 stores a plurality of entries with each program name as one entry. It is possible to store the terminal name, serial number, received data, and the corresponding asynchronous program name.

[0015] The asynchronous execution management file 62 stores a plurality of entries with each program name as one entry, and stores the number of data items registered as asynchronous processing (number of registered items) and the number of processed items that were asynchronously processed. It has become.

Next, the response measurement method and the operation of the asynchronous processing method in the online system of this embodiment configured as described above will be explained.

When transmission data to be transmitted to the computer 5 is input from the keyboard 12, the transmission side transmission means 311 passes the terminal name, transmission time, and transmission data to the execution management means 313, obtains a serial number, and uses the execution monitoring data. The terminal name and serial number are added to the transmission data, and the data is transmitted to the computer 5. The execution management means 313 registers the terminal name, serial number, transmission time, and transmission data in the transmission side execution monitoring file 41.

When the computer 5 receives the transmission data from the terminal 1 by the receiving means 521, the computer 5 includes the message that the data was successfully received using the program name as a key in the receiving side execution monitoring file 61. name, serial number, received data). Further, the receiving means 521 on the receiving side removes the execution monitoring data attached to the received data and sends it to the asynchronous determining means.

The asynchronous determining means 522 determines whether the received data is a synchronous process in which the data processing is executed by the same program or an asynchronous process in which the data processing is executed by another program. A determination instruction for determining synchronous processing or asynchronous processing is included in the transmission data input from the terminal device 1.

If the asynchronous determination means 522 determines that the data processing is asynchronous processing, the asynchronous execution management file 6
2 using the asynchronous program name as a key to start the asynchronous processing, the number of registrations is added up, the received data is registered in the data 63, and the information indicating the asynchronous processing is passed to the process 523. If it is determined that the asynchronous processing is not performed, the processing means 523 performs data processing based on the received data (the processing means 523 does not process the received data that has been determined to be asynchronous processing). When the processing of the processing means 523 is completed,
The receiving side transmitting means 524 reads the receiving side execution monitoring file 61 using the program name as a key, and clears the terminal name and serial number including the purpose that data processing has been completed. At the same time, the terminal name and serial number are re-added to the transmission data and transmitted to the terminal controller 3.

[0021] In the asynchronous processing, the asynchronous reading means 531 monitors (regularly reads) the asynchronous execution management file 62, compares the number of registered items in the asynchronous execution management file 62 and the number of processed items, and determines that the number of registered items is greater than the number of processed items. In this case, the data 63 is read and the processing means 533 is executed. Processing means 5
33 executes processing based on the content read from the data 63, and the receiving side sending means 532 sends the data to the terminal controller 3, deletes the data 63, and writes the data to the asynchronous management file 6.
Add the number of processed items in step 2.

The transmitting side receiving means 312 extracts the terminal name and serial number from the data received from the computer 5, passes them along with the end time to the execution managing means 313, and displays the received data on the terminal 1. The execution management means 313 reads the sending side execution monitoring file 41 using the terminal name and serial number, sets the end time, calculates the response time based on the start time and end time, and reads the sending side execution monitoring file 41.
Export and manage data.

[0023]

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, the present invention has the effect of managing online start and end times and easily collecting online response times by setting an execution management means and an execution monitoring file in the terminal controller. .

Furthermore, by classifying synchronous processing and asynchronous processing and creating separate programs for long-term processing, it is possible to shorten the exclusive use time of the terminal and increase the amount of data input from the terminal.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an online system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a sending side execution monitoring file 41 in FIG. 1;

3 is a diagram showing the contents of a receiving side execution monitoring file 61 and an asynchronous execution management file 62 in FIG. 1. FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Terminal 11 Display 12 Keyboard 2 Printer 3 Terminal controller 31 Transmitting/receiving means on the sending side 311 Sending side transmission means 312 Transmitting side receiving means 313 Execution management means 4 Sending side files group 41 Sending side execution monitoring file 5 Electronic computer 51 Message management 52 Receiving side transmitting and receiving means 521 Receiving side receiving means 522 Asynchronous judgment means 523 Processing means 524 Receiving side transmission means 53 Receiving side transmitting and receiving means 531 Asynchronous extraction means 532 Receiving side transmission means 533 Processing means 6 Database file group 61 Receiving side execution monitoring file 62 Asynchronous execution management file 63 Data

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Transmission and reception of data via a communication line between a terminal device having an input means for inputting information and a computer is performed using a controller of the terminal device and a terminal controller having a means for transmitting and receiving data to and from the computer. In the online system, a sending side transmitting means adds execution monitoring data to transmission data inputted from the terminal device to the terminal controller, and a sending side sending means adds execution monitoring data to the received data inputted from the sending side sending means, Receiving side receiving means that registers received information in an execution monitoring file, removes execution monitoring data and outputs the received data, and inputs received data from said receiving side receiving means and determines whether to perform synchronous processing or asynchronous processing. a receiving-side transmitting means for re-adding the execution monitoring data to the synchronously processed or asynchronously-processed data and transmitting the resultant data; and a transmitting-side receiving means of the terminal controller for receiving the data transmitted by the receiving-side transmitting means. and an execution management unit that receives the execution monitoring data and start information from the sending unit, receives the execution monitoring data and end information from the sending unit, and writes the response time of the data in the sending unit’s monitoring file. An online system characterized by: