Local Path        (Environment)

DESCRIPTION
If specified (see below), the "Local Path" identifies a location to find custom
Servers for a particular Sun MTP system. Sun MTP allows a customer to use a 
site-specific Sun MTP Server. For example, you must use a custom Transaction 
Server to access a database from a 3rd party database package. Sun MTP not only 
allows you to customize the functionality of a Server, but also allows for, if 
so desired (but only for unikixtran and unikixvsam), changing the name of the 
Server to enable you to distinguish processes between Sun MTP systems running 
custom Servers.


VALUES
The value of "Local Path" is a full pathname of a system directory. 
The "Local Path" shows the pathname specified with the -l option on the command 
line to unikixmain.


INTERPRETATION
Sun MTP system searches a defined order of directories to find a Server binary
to execute. A "Local Path" allows you to override the default search pattern.


CONCLUSIONS
By default, Sun MTP searches for a Server binary in $UNIKIX/local/bin and if it 
is not there, looks to $UNIKIX/bin for the default binary. Sun MTP uses the first
binary it finds. Multiple Sun MTP systems running on the same machine may share
the default Sun MTP binaries located in $UNIKIX/bin. A locally configured Server
that is shared by all Sun MTP systems running on a machine should be placed in
$UNIKIX/local/bin.

A Server that is unique to a particular Sun MTP system should be placed in a
directory specific to that Sun MTP system. That directory should be made the
"Local Path" with the -l option to unikixmain because the "Local Path" directory
takes precedence over $UNIKIX/local/bin.

If you desire a Transaction Server to have a name other than unikixtran or wish
a VSAM Server to have a name other than unikixvsam, use the -t and -v options
to unikixmain, respectively. See the Help on "Tran Server" and "VSAM Name" for
more details.
