2. Facilities

This chapter describes the client facilities of OpenTP1.

In this chapter, C functions (dc_xxx_xxx_s) are used to call the DLL for a facility. If you use functions of the normal object library (dc_xxx_xxx) or COBOL, replace the C function names with the corresponding function or facility names.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Organization of this chapter

2.1 User authentication

2.2 Permanent connection

2.3 Remote procedure calls

2.4 Transaction control

2.5 TCP/IP communication function

2.6 Facility for receiving one-way messages from the server

2.7 XATMI interface facility

2.8 Character code converter

2.9 Multi-threading

2.10 Online tester

2.11 Troubleshooting

2.12 Host name extension

2.13 Send-host specification facility

2.14 Fixed receive-port facility