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Revision as of 16:42, 10 June 2008
Terms, abbreviations and acronyms commonly heard in the vicinity of the System i
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0
- A Green Screen terminal, session or the communications protocol of that session
A
- A Unix operating system
- API, Application Programming Interface
- AFP, AFP Advanced Function Printing
- APPC, Advanced Program to Program Communication
B
- BPCS, Business Planning and Control System
- System i ERP software used by a number of manufacturing businesses.
- BRMS, Backup and Recovery Media Services
C
- C-Spec, Code Specification
- A section in RPG programs dealing with program code and logic specifications
- CIW, Compute Intensive Workload
- CISC, Complex Instruction Set Computer
- CLP, Control Language Programming
- The OS/400 command processing language
- COBOL, COmmon Business-Oriented Language
- An old, but widely used programming language
D
- D-Spec, Data Specification
- A section in RPG programs dealing with data definition
- The native System i database
- DBU, Data Base Utility
- A data manipulation tool by Prodata
- DDS, Data Description Specifications
- A language used to define database file structures
- DFU, Data File Utility
- A data manipulating tool with simple integrated language
E
- EJB, Enterprise Java Bean
- ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning
F
- F-Spec, File Specification
- A section in RPG programs dealing with file definition
- ftp, File Transfer Protocol
G
- GDDM, Graphical Data Display Manager, [1]
- Green Screen
H
- H-Spec, Header Specification
- A section in RPG programs dealing with control and compilations specifications
- HMC, Hardware Management Console
I
J
- JDK, Java Developer Kit
K
L
- An Java editor that understand the System i environment and languages
- LPP, Licensed Program Product
M
- An ERP system in common use on the System i
- midrange.com [3]
- A premier resource for System i information and host for this wiki.
- MRP, Manufacturing Resources Planning
- MQ Series, [4]
- Multi platform middleware suite consisting of a messaging, rules engine and workflow applications
N
- A scripting language
O
- O-Spec, Output Specification
- A section in RPG programs dealing with output
- The System i operating system
P
- PASE, Portable Application Solutions Environment
- PDM, Programming Development Manager
- A development environment for 5250 sessions
- A scripting language
- POSIX, Portable Operating System Interface, [7]
- prompt
- Rather than type out a complete command, Control Language commands can be prompted by pressing F4. This will show command parameters and allow parameter value entry.
Q
- Qanything
- On the System i anything starting with a Q generally means that it is IBM supplied
- qsh, Qshell command language interpreter
- Qshell
- A POSIX based command environment on OS/400, comparable to ash, bash and other command shells [8]
R
- An interpreted language available for the System i
- A programming language commonly used on the System i
- Rational Developer for System i
S
- SDA, Screen Design Aid
- Dynamically linked set of pre-compiled functions, comparable to dll's on Windows and libraries on *nix
- SEU, Source Entry Utility
- SMTP, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- A standard [11] for sending email.
- IBM language meaning no further enhancements will be made to a product. This does not preclude program fixes from being released. It's a first step to the end of life of the product. SEU is stabilized as of V6R1M0.
T
U
V
- Variable length field or record
- A means of storing data within a file using records of different lengths, usually reserving bytes to indicate either numerically the amount of data or to delineate the end of data and incurring some small overhead relative to access and storage versus a flat file.
- Version number — of the form V<number>R<number>M<number>
- The operating system version of the System i. The letters denote V for version, R for release, and M for modification level.
- For example: V6R1, V5R4, and V3R2M1 (a fine but rustic vintage, circa CISC)
- VNC, Virtual Network Computing
W
X
- XCOM, [14]
- Commonly used data transport software