Dictionary
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Terms, abbreviations and acronyms commonly heard in the vicinity of the System i
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0
5250
- A Green Screen terminal, session or the communications protocol of that session
A
AIX
- A Unix operating system
API
- Application Programming Interface
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
- The only such section, as opposed to all of the other specifications H, F, E, I, D, and O
CIW
- Compute Intensive Workload
CISC
- Complex Instruction Set Computer
- As opposed to RISC
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
- A measurement over interactive processing, versus batch, as implemented by IBM to facilitate accessing fees and charges for usage of leased systems, the inability to disable this feature on out-of-lease equipment is controversial in the System i community
CQE
- Classic Query Engine
D
D-Spec
- Data Specification
- A section in RPG programs dealing with data definition
DASD
- Direct Access Storage Devices
DB2/400
- The native System i database
- AKA, DB/400
DBU
- Data Base Utility
- A data manipulation tool
- See vendor Prodata
DDS
- Data Description Specifications
- A language used to define data structure and attributes, as in database, display, printer, and communication files, also dataareas
- Also used for application or enterprise-wide master reference files, void of data, but implemented for standardized definitions
- Oddly, as opposed to all of the other letter named specifications, identitified by the letter "A" in column 6
DFU
- Data File Utility
- A data manipulating tool with simple integrated language
E
E-Spec
- Extension Specification
- A section in RPG programs dealing with array definition
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
- See IBM software GDDM
Green Screen
H
H-Spec
- Header Specification
- A section in RPG programs dealing with the control and compilation of the program
HMC
- Hardware Management Console
I
I-Spec
- Input Specification
- A section in RPG programs dealing with data definition
IFS
- Integrated File System
ILE
- Integrated Language Environment
IPL
- Initial Program Load
J
JDK
- Java Developer Kit
K
L
LPAR
- Logical PARtition
LPEX
- Live Parsing eXtensible Editor
- An Java editor that understand the System i environment and languages
LPP
- Licensed Program Product
M
MAPICS
- Manufacturing and Planning Integrated Control System
- See vendor MAPICS
- An ERP system in common use on the System i
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MRP
- Manufacturing Resources Planning
MQ Series
- Multi platform middleware suite consisting of a messaging, rules engine and workflow applications
- See IBM software integration - WMQ
N
Net.Data
- A scripting language
- See IBM software Net.Data
O
O-Spec
- Output Specification
- A section in RPG programs dealing with data definition
OPM
- Original Program Model
OS/400
- The System i operating system
P
PASE
PDM
- Programming Development Manager
- A development environment for 5250 sessions
PHP
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
- A scripting language
- See vendor PHP
POSIX
- Portable Operating System Interface
- See vendor Pasc - Plato
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.
pruv
- IBM's PRe-Upgrade Verification tool for i5/OS
PTF
- Program Temporary Fix
- Not withstanding the title, some of which can be permanently applied
Q
- Q, a name prefixed with the letter
- On the System i, generally means that it is IBM supplied object, as in QSYS, QTEMP, QS36F
qsh
- Qshell
- A command language interpreter
Qshell
- A POSIX based command environment on OS/400, comparable to ash, bash and other command shells
- See Wikipedia Comparison of computer shells
R
Rexx
RISC
- Reduced Instruction Set Computer
- As opposed to CISC
RPG
- Report Program Generator
- A programming language commonly used on the System i
RSE
- Remote System Explorer
RDi
- Rational Developer for System i, orientated as an enterprise replacement for #WDSC
- See IBM software AWD tools - RDi
S
SDA
Service Program
- Dynamically linked set of pre-compiled functions, comparable to DLL's on Windows and libraries on *nix
SEU
SMTP
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- A standard for sending email
- See IETF RFC-2821
SQE
- SQL Query Engine
SQL
- Structured Query Language
SSH
- Secure SHell
Stabilized
- 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
- As in a non-standard 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
- Usually 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
WDSC
- WebSphere Development Studio Client
- See IBM software AWD tools - WDT/400
WSDL
- Web Service Definition Language
- See vendor W3 WSDL
X
XCOM
- Commonly used data transport software
- See vendor Computer Associates products - XCOM
