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The Message Router facility is always generated by SIP. This means that the generation of system records as well as the assembly of selected system programs which are part of the MR Facility will always be included at system generation time.
The system records used by the Message Routing Facility have already been discussed. Note that SIP generates only the following records:
The RCAT Initialization Table contains user application entries and system pseudo application entries. The names of these system pseudo application entries are fixed (not optional) and are:
Where x represents the CPUIDs of all the TPF systems in the computer network. Obviously, these names cannot be used to identify other user applications.
BSC Station Name Conversion Table.
The remaining records must be generated using the Pilot Generation function of the System Test Compiler (STC). STC language is used to generate the following record:
The WGTA Tables are initialized during system cycle up and do not require any offline generation.
All the details relative to the use of SIP and STC are found in TPF System Generation and TPF Program Development Support Reference respectively. Details relative to the type and value of the contents of the records to be generated are found in the specific record description documents and in TPF System Generation.
Figure 15 represents a general overview of the process required to ultimately be able to IPL a TPF system with the Message Routing Facility. Note that the process shown is by no means a true representation of the steps and program components involved in the generation and loading of data and programs to the TPF on-line files. It only serves the purpose of pictorially drawing the reader's attention to major areas of the TPF system which are directly involved in the installation of the MR Facility.