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

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S

S/MIME

Secure Multimedia Internet Mail Extensions. An implementation of PKI for public key cryptogrophy.

SAA Resource Recovery

An alternative to CICS syncpoint and rollback.

SAA

1. Storage accounting area. A field at the start of a CICS storage area which describes the area and enables CICS to recover from some storage violations.
2. Systems Application Architecture. An IBM initiative to foster common standards. A set of interfaces, conventions and protocols for use across multiple computing environments.

SAF

System Authorization Facility. An MVS interface invoked by CICS to communicate with an external security manager, such as RACF.

SAM

1. Sequential access method. QSAM and BSAM are MVS sequential access methods which can be used to store or retrieve data in a continuous sequence. SAM can be used with CICS extrapartition transient data data sets.
2. In CICSPlex, system availability monitoring.

SAN

Storage area network.

SAP

Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing. A vendor product.

SAS

Secure Association Services.

SAX

Simple API for XML.

SBA

1. Set Buffer Address. A term and command used in conjuction with 3270 data streams.
2. Smith, Bucklin & Associates. An event management company used by the U.S. SHARE user group to assist with organization and conduction of semi-annual SHARE meetings.

SC

Service class. A term used with workload management.

SCO

Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.

SCS

1. SNA character string. A unique character string usually associated with printers.
2. A CICS initialization parameter used to specify the size of the CICS storage cushion

SDA

Screen Design Aid. An IBM product for use in defining BMS maps for use with CICS on AIX.

SDF

Screen Definition Facility. An IBM product which assists in the definition of CICS Basic Mapping Support (BMS) maps for device and format independence.

SDG

System Definition Guide. A CICS reference manual.

SDI

Single document interface. A Visual Basic forms option.

SDK

Software Development Kit. For instance, IBM Java 2 SDK for OS/390.

SDLC

Synchronous data link control. A network protocol.

SDSA

Shared dynamic storage area, below the 16mb line.

SDT

Shared Data Table. A data table residing in one CICS region or partition, accesible by other CICS systems. Similar to function shipping and file-owning regions.

SDTG

Shared Data Tables Guide. A CICS reference manual.

SDUMP

System dump. An MVS dump which can be formatted by a CICS-supplied IPCS exit to show all control blocks and storage areas in the region.

SE

Systems Engineer. Usually with reference to an IBM job position, where the individual provided customers with technical marketing product support.

server

A generic term used to describe a functional unit (e.g. a program) that provides shared services to clients over a network or within a local configuration.

service reload

A COBOL term used to describe the function of resetting Base Locator for Linkage (BLL) cells main storage addressibility.

servlet

A Java program that runs within a JVM on a web server and sends HTML data to a web browser.

SFS

Structure File Server.

SGML

The standard that defines several markup languages, including HTML.

shelf

A directory of CICS-related JAR files.

SHTML

Server-side Hypertext Markup Language.

SIB

Service Integration Bus (SIBUS). A WebSphere term.

SIP

System Initialization Program. The CICS program which prepares CICS for execution.

SIT

System Initialization Table. A table containing user specifications the control the CICS initialization process.

SLA

Service level agreement.

SLR

Service Level Reporter. A program which produces reports on CICS performance and service levels.

SLU

Secondary logical unit.

SLU2

Secondary logical unit, using 3270 protocols.

SLUP

Secondary logical unit programmable. Use of LU0 protocol to communicate with a programmable workstation.

SMA

Security Migration Aid. A CICS-provided program for use with CICS/VSE systems, to migrate user sign-on table information.

SMB

Small and/or Midsize Business.

SMEUI

Systeme Management End User Interface. A WebSphere V4 term.

SMF

System Management Facility. A component of MVS for recording system management data.

SMIT

System Management Interface Tool. A menu-based tool used with IBM's AIX operating system to initiate selected commands.

SMP/E

System Modification Program/Extended. An IBM program for applying software maintenance.

SMSVSAM

The name of the VSAM server region that provides Record Level Sharing (RLS) support for CICS.

SMTP

Simple mail transfer protocol. A popular protocol for sending e-mail.

SMUEI

System Management End User Interface. A term used with WebSphere V4.

SNA

Systems Network Architecture. An architecture, including specifications for the logical structure, formats, protocols and operational sequences for transmitting informtion through, and controlling the configuration and operations of networks.

SNMP

Simple network management protocol. A TCP/IP protocol. A means of checking network devices for proper operation.

SNT

Sign On Table. A table of userids and passwords, used in earlier versions of CICS.

SOA

Service Oriented Architecture. A Web Services term.

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol. An XML/HTTP-based protocol for accessing services, objects and servers, regardless of the platform (e.g. between EJB and COM components).

socket

A function of the TCP access method, allowing application programs to issue socket calls (read/write) with respect to a path made up of storage allocations and control blocks.

SoD

Statement of Direction. Sometimes written as SoD. Generally, an IBM statement of future support.

SOS

Short on storage. A CICS condition when the amount of storage requested exceedsthe amount available.

SOSI

Shift out/shift in.

SP

System programming. A CICS Translator option for application programs which use the CICS system programming interface (SPI).

SPI

1. Systems Programmer Interface. A subset of CICS commands which require a special translator option, for which command security checking can be performed.
2. Service Provider Interface. A programmable interface associated with JNDI.
3. A WebSphere term.

SPML

Services Provisional Markup Language. An XML-based framework for exchanging user, resource and service provisioning information between applications and organizations.

SPR

System Programming Reference. A CICS reference manual.

SPURGE

An attribute of a CICS transaction definition specifying that the transaction is eligible for system purging.

SPX

Software platform extension. A WebSphere term.

SQA

System Queue Area. An MVS storage area, below the 16mb line, which contains tables and queues relating to the entire system performed.

SQL

Structured Query Language. An application programming interface (API) for use with relational data base management systems such as IBM's DB2.

SQLJ

Java Structured Query Language.

SRB

Service Request Block. An MVS control block representing a dispatchable unit of work (a program) in conjunction with the job step task (TCB) running in the same address space (region).

SRC

In CICS for AIX, a system resource controller.

SRL

System reference library. A common name for IBM product publications.

SRM

System Resource Manager. A component of the MVS operating system.

SRR

SAA Resouce Recovery. An alternative to CICS syncpoint and rollback.

SRT

System Recovery Table. A CICS table of operating system abend codes for which recovery can be attempted.

SRVCLASS

Service Class. An MVS Workload Manager specification to associate a service class with a report performance group run in compatibilty mode.

SSA

Segment search argument. SSAs are used to identify DL/I database segments.

SSI

Single system image. A generic term used to describe an interface by which one system can provide access and use of multiple other systems. The IBM CICSPlex product provides SSI support, where an operator has the image of one system, but in reality there may be multiple CICS systems involved.

SSL

Secured Sockets Layer. A protocol for exchanging confidential information, in a secured form, across an insecure network such as the Internet.

STAE

stderr

Standard error. A user-defined or default destination (file) for error information in a UNIX environment.

stdin

Standard input. A user-defined or default device (file) for input in a a UNIX environment.

stdout

Standard output. A user-defined or default device (file) for output in a a UNIX environment.

STGPROT

A CICS initialization parameter used to specify if storage protection is to be used in the CICS region.

STGRCVY

A CICS initialization parameter used to specify if recovery is to be attempted for storage violations.

STRNO

A CICS specification for the number of concurrent file requests that can be issued against a file (NSR) or LSRPOOL.

STSN

Set and test sequence numbers.

STUP

CICS Statistics Utility Program.

SUBSPACE

An area of storage in which tasks execute if CICS storage isolation is being used.

SUBTSKS

A CICS initialization parameter used to specify the number of MVS TCBs to be used for tasks running in concurrent mode.

SUF

Service Update Facility. A facility of OS/390, SUF enables corrective and preventive service to be ordered via the Internet.

SVA

Shared Virtual Area. A key-0 storage protected main storage area of the VSE/ESA operating system. CICS pure reentrant programs can be loaded into SVA.

SVC

Supervisor call routine. An operating system routine invoked by an SVC macro to perform some supervisory, operating system function (e.g. open a file).

SWA

Scheduler Work Area. Operating system storage within the CICS address space, which contains information about the job and job step.

SWAM

Simple WebSphere Authentication Mechanism.

SWDT

Switch data traffic. In a CICS XRF configuration, a VTAM session control request to switch LU sessions from the alternate CICS to the active CICS.

SWG

IBM's Software Group.

SWIM

A WebSphere term.

synchronous

An event that happens, exists or arises at the same time as another event. In contrast with asynchronous.

syncpoint

A CICS function to commit changes to protected resources made by the transaction (unit of work).

SYSEIB

A CICS Translator option to use the system EIB rather than the application's EIB.

SYSEVENT

An MVS SRM macro used by the CICS monitoring facility to record transaction elapsed time.

SYSIN

A CICS Translator input file containing the source program to be translated and then compiled.

sysplex

Two or more locally interconnected MVS operating systems images.

SYSPRINT

A CICS Translator output file containing a listing of messages produced by the translation process.

SYSPUNCH

A CICS Translator output file containing translated source code which becomes input to the following compile step.

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