Acronym List for Software Products

A

 
 

ADDS, Advanced Data Dictionary System

 

ADM, Automatic Display Mode

 

ANSI, American National Standards Institute

 

API, application programming interface

 

ARP, Address Resolution Protocol

 

ASCII, American Standard Code for Information Interchange

 

ASDI, actual segment descriptor

 

ASP, Active Server Page

 

ATM, asynchronous transfer mode

 

ATMI, Application to Transaction Manager Interface

B

 
 

BARS, Activity Reporting System

 

BLOB, binary large object

 

BNA, Unisys Network Architecture

 

BSD, Berkeley Systems Development

C

 
 

CAL, Client Access License

 

CANDE, Command and Edit

 

CCF, Custom Connect Facility

 

CCI, Common Client Interface

 

CCS, coded character set

 

CD-R, compact disc recordable

 

CD-ROM, compact disc read-only memory

 

CGI, Common Gateway Interface

 

CLOB, character large object

 

CLP, Cell Loss Priority

 

CMT, COBOL Migration Tool

 

CNA, ClearPath Network Appliance

 

CNS, Core Network Services

 

CDO, Collaborative Data Objects

 

COM, component object model

 

COM+, Component Services

 

COMTI, Component Object Model Transaction Integrator

 

CORBA, Common Object Request Broker Architecture

 

COTS, commercial off-the-shelf

 

CPU, central processor unit

 

CRM, communications resource manager

 

CSU, Command Store Utility

D

 
 

DAP, Directory Access Protocol

 

DASDL, Data and Structure Definition Language

 

DBA, database administrator

 

DBMS, database management system

 

DCA, Distributed Control Agent

 

DCOM, distributed component object mode

 

DDA, data dependent attributes

 

DLC, data link control

 

DMP, Dialog Management Protocol

 

DMTF, Desktop Management Task Force

 

DNS, domain name server

 

DOC, Online Documentation System

 

DS, differentiated services

 

DSS, Distributed Systems Services

 

DTD, document type definition

 

DTP, distributed transaction processing

E

 
 

EAP, Enterprise Application Platform

 

EBCDIC, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

 

EIDL, E-Mode Interface Definition Language

 

EJB, Enterprise Java Beans

 

ELAN, emulated LAN

 

ERGO, Extended Retrieval with Graphic Output

 

ERP, enterprise resource planning

 

ESR, Electronic Service Request

 

EUDC, end user defined characters

F

 
 

FDDI, fiber distributed data interface

 

FTP, File Transfer Protocol

G

 
 

GDS, generalized data stream

 

GOSIP, Government OSI Profile

 

GSS, generic security services

 

GUI, graphical user interface

H

 
 

HTML, Hypertext Markup Language

 

HTTP, Hypertext Transfer Protocol

I

 
 

IC, Interim Correction

 

ICE, Integrated Communications Environment

 

ICMP, Internet Control Message Protocol

 

ICP, integrated communications processor

 

IDL, interface definition language

 

IEC, International Electrotechnical Commission

 

IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

 

IETF, Internet Engineering Task Force

 

IIS, Internet Information Server

 

IMG, Interactive Menugraph Generator

 

IOM, I/O module

 

IPC, Interprocess Communications

 

ISO, International Standards Organization

 

IT, information technology

 

I-SQL, Interactive Structured Query Language

J

 
 

JAAS, Java Authorization and Authentication Service

 

JDBC, Java Database Connectivity

 

JDK, Java Development Kit

 

JMS, Java Messaging Service

 

JMX, Java Management Extension

 

JCA, Java Connector Architecture

 

JNDI, Java Naming and Directory Interface

 

JRE, Java Run-Time Environment

 

JSP, JavaServer Pages

 

JTA, Java Transaction API

 

JVM, Java Virtual Machine

K

 
 

KDC, Key Distribution Center

L

 
 

LAN, local area network

 

LANE, LAN emulation

 

LCN, logical channel number

 

LCW, LAN-connected workstation

 

LDAP, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

 

LEC, LAN emulation client

 

LLC, logical link control

M

 
 

MARC, Menu-Assisted Resource Control

 

MCAPI, MCP Crypto Application Program Interface

 

MCP, Master Control Program

 

MCS, message control system

 

MFA, Multi-Factor Authentication

 

MHS, Message Handling System

 

MIB, Management Information Base

 

MLI, message level interface

 

MLS, MultiLingual System

 

MMC, Microsoft Management Console

 

MPC, Master Processor Card

 

MMQ, Microsoft Message Queue

 

MQ, Message Queuing

 

MQI, Message Queuing Interface

 

MRJ, Mac OS Runtime for Java

 

MTA, Message Transfer Agent

 

MTS, Microsoft Transaction Server

N

 
 

NAU, Network Administrative Utility

 

NIC, network interface card

 

NVT, Network Virtual Terminal

O

 
 

ODBC, Open Database Connectivity

 

ODT, operator display terminal

 

OI, operator interface

 

OLE, object linking and embedding

 

OLE DB, object linking and embedding database

 

OLTP, Online Transaction Processing

 

OSI, Open Systems Interconnection

P

 
 

PAD, packet assembler/disassembler

 

PAF, Program Agent Facility

 

PCM, protocol converter module

 

PDF, Portable Document Format

 

PDL, page description language

 

PDN, Public Data Network

 

PKI, Public Key Infrastructure

 

PLM, port level manager

 

PSH, protocol-specific handler

 

PVC, permanent virtual circuit

Q

 
 

QLLC, qualified link level control

 

QoS, quality of service

R

 
 

RFC, Request for Comment

 

RJE, remote job entry

 

RIP, Routing Information Protocol

 

RM, resource manager

 

RMI, Remote Method Invocation

 

ROC, Report Output Control

 

RPC, Remote Procedure Call

 

RPG, Report Program Generator

 

RSN, record serial number

S

 
 

SA, System Assistant

 

SAR, service archives

 

SASL, Simple Authentication and Security Layer

 

SCP, System Console Processor

 

SCSI, small computer systems interface

 

SDF, Screen Design Facility

 

SDK, Software Development Kit and Software Developer's Kit

 

SMTP, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

 

SNA, Systems Network Architecture

 

SNMP, Simple Network Management Protocol

 

SOA, Service Oriented Architecture

 

SOAP, Simple Object Access Protocol

 

SPS, Single Point Security

 

SQL, Structured Query Language

 

SSL, Secure Sockets Layer

 

SSP, Supplemental Support Package

 

SSU, Select Software Update

 

SVC, switched virtual circuit

T

 
 

TADS, Test and Debug System

 

TCP/IP, Transaction Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

 

TCS, transport converter service

 

TELNET, Telecommunications Network Protocol

 

TIC, TCP/IP Interprocess Communication

 

TFL, Transaction Formatting Language

 

TLS, transport layer security

 

TM, transaction manager

 

TOS, type of service

 

TP, transaction program

 

TPE, TCP/IP Printing Enabler

 

TPS, Transaction Processing System

 

TTP, Terminal Transport Protocol

U

 
 

UDDI, Universal Description Discovery and Integration

 

UDP, User Datagram Protocol

 

URL, uniform resource locator

V

 
 

VLAN, virtual LAN

 

VM, virtual machine

 

VSS, virtual sector size

W

 
 

WAN, wide area network

 

WAP, Wireless Application Protocol

 

WFL, Work Flow Language

 

WML, Wireless Markup Language

 

WSDL, Web Services Description Language

X

 
 

XATMI, X/Open Application to Transaction Management Interface

 

XHTML, Extensible HTML

 

XML, Extensible Markup Language