Dictionary
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Terms, abbreviations and acronyms commonly heard in the vicinity of the System i
0 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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
- CPW, Commercial Processing Workload
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]
- pruv, IBM Pre-upgrade Verification Tool for i5/OS
- PTF, Program Temporary Fix
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
- 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
- VNC, Virtual Network Computing
W
X
- XCOM, [13]
- Commonly used data transport software
