Appendix B: Glossary

Glossary of D3 terms, commands, acronyms, and so on.

A

ABS

ACCESS (AQL)

Account

ACID

Active List

ADI

Alias

AMC

ASCII

Assembler

Assembly Language, Pick

Assembly Languages

Atomic Operation

Attribute

Attribute Mark

B

B-Tree

Backward Link Zero

BASIC

Binary Files

Blocked I/O

BLZ

Branching

C

CCB

CDS

Clipboard

Command

Conversion

Correlative

CRT

Cruising

CTRL Key

Cursor Control Block

D

D-Pointer

Delimiter

Dialer

Dictionaries

Dirty Bits

dm

Domain

Double-Space

E

EBCDIC

Element, Data

Entity

Expression

External Format

F

FCB

FDI

File

File Control Block

File Inconsistency

File Inconsistency Handler

File Lock Codes

File Name

File Reference

File System Interface

File-Defining Items

FlashBASIC

Flusher

Font

Frame

Full Duplex

Full Restore

G

Group

H

Half Duplex

Hangup

Hashing

Header Files

Hot Backup

Hung Port

I

Incremental Restore

Incremental Save

Installation

Internal Format

Item

Item-ID

L

Language Definition

Levels

Linked Overflow

Locking Scheme

Locks

Logon

M

Macros

Master Dictionary

Maxfid

Menus (Glossary)

Metacharacters

Modulo (Glossary)

N

Name Service

Network Save/Restore

O

Open Systems File Interface

OSFI

Overflow Table

P

Passwords

Performance Monitoring

Phantom Process

PIB

PIB Status

Pick Remote Files

PID

Pointer Item

Port

Port Number

Primary File Space

Primary List

Prompt

Prompt Characters

Pseudo Tape

Q

Q-Pointer

QS-Pointer

R

Restore

Restricted System Access

Retrieval and Update Locks

S

Scrubber

Secondary List

Security

Segment Mark

Selection Processor

seq

Software Change Request

Start Buffer Mark

Subvalue

Subvalue Mark

Super Q-Pointer

Synonym-Defining Items

Synonyms

Sysbase

System Delimiters

System Privileges

T

Tape Handling Commands

Tape Socket

Transaction Logger

U

UNIX Files (Glossary)

User Exits

User-ID

V

Value

Value Mark

var

Virtual Machine

W

Workgroup