Bob Yelavich's Glossary of CICS-related Terms & Abbreviations

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B2B

Business to Business. A term used to describe requirements and/or facilities needed for businesses to communicate with each other using the Internet.

B2C

Business to Consumer (Customer). A term used to describe requirements and/or facilities for businesses to communicate with the consumer using the Internet.

backout

The function of removing any changes to CICS protected resources performed by an active CICS unit of work prior to a task or system failure.

BAKR

Branch and Stack. An Assembler programming instruction.

BAM

Business activity management.

BAS

Business Application Services. A function of the CICSPlex System Management (SM) product which manages CICS resource definitions and the CICS installation process.

BASE64

An encoding algorithm that converts all characters in a data stream to printable ASCII characters.

BASESPACE

An area of storage in which all tasks execute if CICS transaction isolation is not being used.

BCHLU

A type of batch logical unit defined in the CICS terminal control table.

BCICSPCT

A RACF resource class profile used to control access to transactions specified in other CICS commands.

BCP

An operating system's base control program.

BDAM

Basic Direct Access Method. An operating system access method for randomly accessed files (non-sequential).

BDI

Batch Data Interchange. Communication between a CICS program and a named data set or destination which is part of a batch interchange logical unit on an outboard controller or LU4 logical unit.

bean

A Java term used to describe a reusable program object (a program or routine) which has been encapsulated as an object. The object has a name, an interface and contains one or more executable methods to provide intended function.

BEEQE

Buffer extended error queue element. Indicates a data block which cannote be accessed because of unresolved an in-doubt condition while using IMS DBCTL.

BG

Background. A type of partition used in VSE operating system environments.

BGAM

Basic Graphics Access Method. An access method for graphics terminals using GDDM.

BIF

Built-in Function. A CICS-provided program routine, such as DEEDIT

BIND

1. Berkeley Internet Name Daemon. A version of a domain name system, used by CICS.
2. A SNA request to activate a session between two logical units (LUs).

BLI

Business Logic Interface. A component of CICS Web Support, which can be invoked by input from web browsers or other non-web inputs.

BLL

Base Locator Cell. A COBOL facility for addressing an area in main storage. Similar in concept to a base register.

BMP

1. Batch Message Processing program. An IMS application region run under control of the IMS control region, having access to online data bases and mesage queues.
2. Bean-managed persistence. An EJB entity bean which manages its own state.
3. A type of graphics image file.
4. Bit map

BMS

Basic Mapping Support. A CICS-provided facility for the mapping of terminal device data streams, and an application programming interface which offers device and data format independence.

BMT

Bean managed transaction. Data integrity managed at the application level.

BNN

1. In SNA, a subarea node which provides protocol support for peripheral nodes.
2. In XRF, the point at which terminal sessions are switched from the failing system to the newly active system.

BOMP

Bill of Materials Processor. An early database management system used primarily in the manufacturing industry to organize and process data regarding components of assemblies or sub-assemblies.

bootstrap

A common term, usually used to describe a small program whose purpose is to load a larger program or programs for execution.

BPEL

Business Process Execution Language for Web Services. A language to describe business processes.

BPS

1. Bits per second. A data transmission rate.
2. Build parameter set. Used during the build process for a terminal or connection definition.

bracket protocol

A VTAM SNA protocol to prevent a conversation between two logical units from being interrupted. CICS supports bracket protocol.

BRDATA

An operand of the START command, used to specify the data to be passed to the CICS 3270 Bridge Exit.

BREXIT

Bridge exit. An optional parameter for a transaction definition, used to name the bridge exit to be used with this transaction.

BRIDGE

A parameter for various CICS commands, referring to the CICS 3270 Bridge exit (or transaction).

BRT

Bright. A BMS DFHMDF specification for a field to be displayed bright (high intensity).

BRXA

Bridge exit area. As used by the CICS 3270 Bridge.

BSAM

Basic Sequential Access Method. An operating system access method for pure sequential files (e.g. cards, tape, disk, printer).

BSC

Binary synchronous communication. A means of data communication in which the synchronization of characters is controlled by timing signals generated at the sending and receiving stations.

BSF

1. Bean scripting framework. A WebSphere administrative client which allows a variety of scripting languages.
2. Best so far. A common term with reference to the state of software development.

BTAM

Basic Telecommunications Access Method. A communication access method supported by earlier releases of CICS; for start/stop and binary synchronous terminals.

BTRANS

Background transparency. A feature of the 3270 display terminal.

BTS

Business Transaction Services. A set of CICS-provided application and support services for use with complex business transactions (i.e. a business transaction made up of two or more CICS transactions).

BUFND

Number of data buffers for a VSAM file using non-shared resources (NSR).

BUFNI

Number of index buffers for a VSAM file using non-shared resources (NSR).

BUFNO

Number of data buffers for a CICS transient data extrapartition data set.

BUFPOOLS

An IMS DBCTL specification for the size of a buffer pool which would include DMB and PSB pools.

BUFSZE

An operand of the DFHPDI macro for defining the presentation space for display partitioning.

BWO

Backup while open. A means of taking backups of VSAM files that CICS is currently updating.

byte

A unit of data, containing one character, number or special character. In the EBCDIC code set, a byte is made up of eight binary bits.

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