Acronyms

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a

acid: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability (transaction properties)
acl: Access Control List
ai: Artificial Intelligence
ansi: American national Standards Institute
ansi/sparc: ANSI/Standards Planning and Requirements Committee
api: Application Programming Interface
appc: Advanced Program to Program Communications
appn: Advanced Peer to Peer Networking
ascii: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
b
bcnf: Boyce-Codd Normal Form
bps: Bits Per Second
c
case: Computer Assisted Software Engineering
cics/vs: Customer Informatin Control System / Virtual Storage
clist: Command List (MVS-TSO)
cms: Converstaional Monitoring System; Change Management System
cobol: COmmon Business Oriented Language
cobra: Common Object Request Brokering Architecture
codasyl: Committee On DAta SYstem Languages
cos: Common Object Services
cpu: Central Procesing Unit
cse: (advantage gen) Client Server Encyclopedia
csma/cd: Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection
css: Cascading Style Sheets
d
dasd: Direct-Access Storage Device
db2: Data Base 2 (IBM DBMS)
dbms: DataBase Management System
ddl: Data Definition Language
dfd: Data Flow Diagram
dk/nf: Domain Key Normal Form
dl/1: Data Language 1 (part of IMS)
dml: Data Manipulation Language
dns: Domain Name Service
dos: Disk Operating System
dsdl: Data Storage Description Language
dss: Decision Support System
e
eab: (advantage gen) External Action Block
ebcdic: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
edi: Electronic Data Interchange
eis: Executive Information System; Enterprise Information System
ejb: Enterprise JavaBeans
erd: Entity Relationship Diagram
f
fep: Front End Processor (hardware)
fortran: FORmula TRANslator
fk: Foreigh Key
ftp: File Transfer Protocol
g
gui: Graphical User Interface
h
he: (advantage gen) Host Encyclopedia
html: HyperText Markup Language
http: HyperText Transfer Protocol
i
IAB: Internet Architecture Board
iana: Internet assigned number authority
icase: Integrated CASE
idl: Interface Definition Language
idms: Integrated Database Manangemnt System
ie: Information Engineering
ieee: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ief: Information Engineering Facility
iesg: Internet Engineering Steering Group
ietf: Internet Engineering Task Force
ims: Information Management System
is: Information Systems
isam: Indexed Sequential Access Method
isdn: Integrated Services Digital Network
isn: Internal Sequence Number
iso: International Standards Organizatin
ispf: Interactive System Productivity Facility
j
jcl: Job Control Language
jad: Joint Application Development
jms: Java Message Service
jndi: Java Naming Directory Interface
l

lan: Local Area Network
m
mime: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
mips: Million Instructions Per Second
mis: Management Informatin Systems
mvc: model-view-controller
mvs/xa: Multiple Virtual Stroages / eXtended Architecture
o
oop: Object Oriented Programming
ocr: Optical Character Recognition
olap: OnLine Analytical Processing
ole: Object Linking and Embedding
oltp: On-line Transaction Processing
omg: Object Management Group
open: Object-oriented Process, Environments and Notation
opf: Open Process Framework
orb: Object Request Broker
p
pert: Program Evaluation and Review Technique (Chart)
pgml: Precision graphics markup language (Adobe)
pk: Primary Key
pl/1: Program Language 1
png: Portable Network Graphic format
ptf: (advantage gen) Problem - Temporary Fix (?)
q
qbe: Query By Example
qmf: Query Management Facility
r
rad: Rapid Appplication Development
rdbms: Relational Data Base Management System
rfid<: Radio Frequency Identification
rest: Representation State Transfer
rmi: Remote Method Invocation
rss: Really Simple Syndication
s
sap: System Applications and Products
scsi: Small Computer Systems Interface
sdlc: System Development Life Cycle
smtp: Simple Mail Transport Protocol
sgml: Standard Generalized Markup Language
soap
Simple Object Access Protocol
sql: Structured Query Language
std: State Transition Diagram
svg: Scalable vector graphics
swat: Specialists With Advanced Tools
t
tcp/ip: Transmission Control Protocol/Internat Protocol
tiff: Tagged Image File Format
tp: TeleProcessing
tso: Time Sharing Option (MVS)
u
uddi: Universial Description, Discovery and Integration
upc: Universial Product Code
url: Uniform Resource Locators
uucp: Unix to Unix Copy Program
v
vm: Virtual Machine
vml>: Vector markup language (Microsoft)
vsam: Virtual Sequential Access Method
w
wan: Wide Area Network
WBS: Work Breakdown Structure
WSDL: Web Services Description Language
www: World Wide Web
w3c: World Wide Web Consortium
x
xbrl: eXtensible Business Reporting Language
xhtml: eXtensible HyperText Markup Language
xml: eXtensible Markup Language
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1nf: First Normal Form
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2nf: Second Normal Form
3
3gl: Third-Generation Language
3nf: Third Normal Form
4
4gl: Fourth-Generation Language
4nf: Fourth Normal Form
5
5nf: Fifth Normal Form

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