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Cooperative Flow

A cooperative flow is a generated set of instructions that provides the means for a PStep to pass control and data to a target PStep. For a cooperative flow to be generated, the target PStep must be packaged in a Server Manager. The generation of a cooperative flow occurs for each of the following modeling constructs:

• A Window Manager PStep containing a link type dialog flow, where the target PStep is packaged in a Server Manager
• A Procedure Step USE action language statement, where the target PStep is packaged in a Server Manager
• A USE ASYNC action language statement, where the target PStep is packaged in a Server Manager

The term cooperative flow is also used to describe a user-written application invoking the processing of a PStep packaged as part of a generated Server Manager.