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• ANSI (American National Standards Institute)

  ANSI, American National Standards Institute, organization for fostering, development of technology standards, industry groups, International Organization for Standardization, ISO, International Electrotechnical Commission, IEC, computer standards... Continue Reading

• channel

  In telecommunications in general, a channel is a separate path through which signals can flow. Depending on the context, this term has various meanings. Continue Reading

• COTS (commercial off-the-shelf)

  COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) describes ready-made products that can easily be obtained. Continue Reading

• distribution

  In marketing, distribution is the process of moving a product from its manufacturing source to its customers. In computer software, distribution is the phase that follows packaging. Continue Reading

• crontab

  crontab is a UNIX command that creates a table or list of commands, each of which is to be executed by the operating system at a specified time. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • information technology (IT)
  • statistical mean, median, mode and range
  • workload
  • remote hands

  • colocation (colo)
  • data center services
  • CMDB (configuration management database)
  • infrastructure (IT infrastructure)

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• Systems Network Architecture (SNA)

  SNA is a proprietary IBM architecture and set of implementing products for network computing within an enterprise.Continue Reading

• CRON script

  A CRON script is a list of one or more commands to a computer operating system or application server that are to be executed at a specified time.Continue Reading

• chmod (change mode)

  In a UNIX-based operating system, chmod (change mode) is a command used by a file owner or administrator to change the definition of access permissions to a file or set of files.Continue Reading

• BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution)

  BSD (originally: Berkeley Software Distribution) refers to the particular version of the UNIX operating system that was developed at and distributed from the University of California at Berkeley.Continue Reading

• Andrew

  Andrew was a joint project between Carnegie-Mellon University and IBM to set up a distributed computing environment on the CMU campus.Continue Reading

• Watch out when changing the name of IBM VSAM files

  You can rename VSAM datasets, but you might lock the mainframe out of VSAM files if you do it incorrectly. Here's how to change a VSAM name.Continue Reading

• What does IDCAMS mean?

  If you're working with VSAM on an IBM mainframe, you'll probably want to get familiar with IDCAMS.Continue Reading