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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

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
  • CQE, Classic Query Engine

D

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

A section in RPG programs dealing with file definition
  • ftp, File Transfer Protocol

G

5250 session to the System i

H

A section in RPG programs dealing with control and compilations specifications
  • HMC, Hardware Management Console

I

  • 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, [2]
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

A section in RPG programs dealing with output
The System i operating system

P

  • PASE, Portable Application Solutions Environment
An AIX environment for the System i
  • PDM, Programming Development Manager
A development environment for 5250 sessions
  • PHP, PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, [6]
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.
  • 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
  • RISC, Reduced Instruction Set Computer
  • RPG, Report Program Generator
A programming language commonly used on the System i
Rational Developer for System i

S

  • SDA, Screen Design Aid
A 5250 screen designer. A component of PDM
Dynamically linked set of pre-compiled functions, comparable to dll's on Windows and libraries on *nix
  • SEU, Source Entry Utility
A source code editor for 5250 sessions. A component of PDM
  • SMTP, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
A standard [11] for sending email.
  • 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 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

  • WDSC, WebSphere Development Studio Client, [12]
  • WSDL, Web Service Definition Language, [13]

X

Commonly used data transport software

Y

Z

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