JPH04353960A - Environment setting system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To cope with environment alteration only by means of correcting the name of a terminal on a terminal management file when terminal environment is altered. CONSTITUTION:A network management part 1 receives data inputted from an input terminal 4 and it is transferred to an application program(AP) 3 corresponding to data. AP3 executes a processing in accordance with a flow shown in a diagram. Namely, data is received from the network management part (step 8). A transaction processing as against received data is executed (step 9). The terminal management file is read with the name of a virtual terminal being an output destination given as a constant in AP as a key (step 10). The name of the terminal on the network management part, which is read from the terminal management file, is set to a destination (step 11). Data is outputted for transferring control to the network management part (step 12).

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to information processing technology, and particularly to a method for setting a terminal environment for performing form output processing when constructing an online system.

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2. Description of the Related Art In general, the functions required on the host computer side for constructing an online system can be roughly divided into the following two types. 1. Network management function: As part of the OS (operating system), it is constantly deployed in memory and controls data input/output between actually connected terminals and APs (application programs). 2. Transaction processing function: A function that processes data input from individual terminals, and is configured in the AP.

A network management function receives input data from a terminal. The network management function is an AP that has a transaction processing function for the input data.
Pass data to. The AP that receives the data performs transaction processing and outputs the processing results as output data.
Pass data to the network management function, including the name of the terminal to which the processing results will be output. The network management function that receives the data passes the output data to the specified terminal. Therefore, an AP with a transaction processing function may have to be created with the terminal name set by the network management function in mind. For example, there is a process of outputting a form to a specific printer terminal, and in conventional APs, the name of the printer terminal to which the output is to be performed is stored as a constant in the AP.

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[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the conventional AP creation method, since the terminal name for network management purposes is stored in the AP, it is necessary to modify the AP in the following cases. 1. When the terminal name changes due to a change in the network environment. 2. When changing the output destination terminal.

[0005] Therefore, in a system that performs a lot of output processing to specific terminals, it is necessary to modify the AP and recompile each time the network environment is changed.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems] According to the present invention, ``In form output processing in an online system, the terminal name to be the output destination is stored in the terminal management file, and the terminal definition is updated when the system environment is changed. This provides an environment setting method that is characterized in that it is performed on a terminal management file.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an overall diagram of an online system operating environment according to an embodiment of the present invention. As for the online system operating environment, the host computer side is composed of a network management 1, a terminal name management file 2, and an AP 3, to which an input terminal 4 and an output terminal 5 are connected.

The input terminal 4 functions as an input device for inputting data to the host computer. The network management 1 has a function of managing terminals connected to a host computer by terminal name and controlling data input/output between the terminals and the AP. The AP3 performs transaction processing on input data, and has a virtual terminal name as a constant as an output destination. The dance management file 2 is A
The virtual terminal name 6 held on P is used as a key, and the terminal name 7 on the network management corresponds to the virtual terminal name. The record layout is shown in Figure 2. The output destination terminal 5 has a printing function to output data processing results.

[0010] Data input from the input terminal 4 is received by the network management 1 and passed to the AP 3 corresponding to the data. AP3 performs processing according to the flow shown in FIG. That is, data is received from the network management (step 8). Transaction processing is performed on the received data (step 9). The terminal management file is read using the output destination virtual terminal name held as a constant in the AP as a key (step 10). The network management terminal name read from the terminal management file is set to the destination (step 11). Output data to pass control to network management (step 1)
2).

[0011]

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, in actual output processing from the AP, the output destination is the terminal name associated in the terminal management file, so when changing the terminal environment,
By simply modifying the terminal name in the terminal management file, it becomes possible to counter environment changes.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a record layout of a terminal management file in this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a processing flow of an AP in this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Network management 2 Terminal name management file 3 AP (application program) 4
Input terminal device 5 Output terminal device 6 Virtual terminal name

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: In form output processing in an online system, the name of the terminal to be output is stored in a terminal management file, and the terminal definition is updated on the terminal management file when the system environment is changed. environment setting method.