FTAM/9000 Programmer's Guide

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HP FTAM/9000 Overview

Chapter Overview

This chapter is an overview of the HP-UX implementation of FTAM. The

chapter discusses both the standards on which HP FTAM/9000 is based

and the high-level concepts you should know before writing FTAM

applications (user programs). The major topics are as follows.

• The HP-UX Implementation of FTAM

• Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)

• ISO/IS 8571 FTAM

• Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP) 3.0

• Implementors Agreements

• Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS)

• Conceptual FTAM Overview

• Virtual Filestore (VFS)

• Regimes

• FTAM Communication

• Initiators and Responders

• Application Entities (AEs)

• Synchronous and Asynchronous Calls

• File Attributes

• Document Types

• Constraints Sets

• Access Contexts

• FTAM File Structure Model