A Hartmann pipeline is an extension of the Unix pipeline concept, providing for more complex paths, multiple input/output streams, and other features. It is an example and extension of Pipeline programming.
A Hartmann pipe is a non-procedural representation of a solution of a data processing problem as a dataflow. The error-prone step of translating the dataflow to a traditional procedural programming language is eliminated. Hartmann pipelines may thus be considered as an executable specification language.
The concept was developed by John Poul Hartmann (born 1946), a Danish engineer with IBM. It is available as a software product CMS/TSO Pipelines for a number of IBM platforms. A somewhat backlevel version is included with every level of VM/ESA and z/VM.
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