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

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O

OASIS

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.

object

The encapsulation of data and methods to process that data.

OCO

Object Code Only. A term used to indicate that source code is not distributed for the given program(s).

ODA

Object Discovery Agent.

ODBA

Open Data Base Access.

ODBC

OE

Open Edition. A term used previously to designate an enhanced version of the MVS operating system. This was later renamed UNIX System Services (USS).

OGSA

Open Grid Services Architecture.

OLAP

Online Analytical Processing.

OLE

OLT

Object Level Trace. A tool to trace the flow of an application from the client to the server, and from one server to another server.

OLTP

Online Transaction Processing. A common term used to describe any form of transaction processing which may involve communication devices and data processing environments.

OMG

Object Management Group. A consortium of software organizations that have the mission to define standards pertaining to object oriented, distributed systems.

ONC

Open Network Computing. An industry standard developed by the Sun Corporation, which defines the use of Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) among connected systems.

ONEWTE

One Write. A profile specification for a transaction limiting it to only one write operating during its execution.

OO

Object Oriented. An abbreviation used when discussing or documenting object oriented concepts or facilities. The very basic objective of OO is that reusability enables greater productivity and faster application development.

OOCOBOL

A CICS Translator option to recognized object-oriented syntax in COBOL programs to be compiled.

OPCLASS

An option of the BMS ROUTE command used to send messages to a class of operators (list of operators).

OPNDLIM

Open destination limit. Defines the number of concurrent VTAM logons and logoffs to be processed by CICS.

ORB

Object Request Broker. A layer of software used by CORBA-compliant nodes to assemble/disassemble (marshal/unmarshal) IIOP messages. An ORB enables objects to make requests and receive responses from other objects, transparently, whether local or remote.

OS

Operating system. A very common abbreviation used when discussing or documenting the function or characteristics of an operating system.

OS/2

An operating system from IBM for use on IBM compatible personal computers.

OSF

Open Software Foundation. A consortium of software vendors who have collaborated to produce a standard for Distributed Computing Environment (DCE).

OSI

Open Systems Interconnection. An industry standard which includes two-phase commit and distributed transaction processing.

OTC

One Time Charge. For fee software.

OTE

Open Transaction Environment. An architecture by which programs can execute as part of a CICS transaction but not under the CICS quasi-reentrant TCB. This enables the application to use services not supported directly by CICS.

OTMA

Open Transaction Manager Access. An IMS component which enables connectivity to IMS TM from any TCP/IP client application.

OTS

Object Transaction Services. A CORBA function used to manage the integrity and recoverability of resources used, possibly over a series of method requests on multiple recoverable objects. An extension of the X/Open DTP model.

OTSTID

Object Transaction Services transaction ID.

OTTO

CICS Online Transmission Time Optimizer. An IBM software product which uses data stream compression when sending 3270 data streams.

OUG

Operations and Utilities Guide. A CICS reference manual.

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