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This glossary includes definitions from the following
sources:
Definitions reprinted from the
American National
Dictionary for Information Processing Systems
are
identified by the symbol (A) following the definition.
Definitions reprinted from a published section of the
International Organization for Standardization's
Vocabulary—Information Processing
or from a
published section of the ISO
Vocabulary—Office
Machines
are identified by the symbol (I) following
the definition. Because many ISO definitions are
also reproduced in the
American National
Dictionary for Information Processing Systems
, ISO
definitions may also be identified by the symbol (A).
Definitions reprinted from working documents, draft
proposals, or draft international standards of ISO
Technical Committee 97, Subcommittee 1
(Vocabulary) are identified by the symbol
(T)
following the definition, indicating that final
agreement has not yet been reached among its
participating members.
Definitions that are specific to IBM products are so
labeled, for example, “In SNA,” or “In VM.”
References
The following cross references are used in this
glossary:
Contrast with. This refers to a term that has an
opposite or substantively different meaning.
See. This refers the reader to multiple-word terms in
which this term appears.
See also. This refers the reader to terms that have
related, but not synonymous, meanings.
Synonym for. This appears in the commentary of a
less desirable or less specific term and identifies the
preferred term that has the same meaning.
Synonymous with. This appears in the commentary
of a preferred term and identifies less desirable or less
specific terms that have the same meaning.
A
ACIF. See Advanced Function Presentation
Conversion and Indexing Facility.
Advanced Function Presentation (AFP). A set of
licensed programs that use the all-points-addressable
concept to print data on a wide variety of printers or
display data on a variety of display devices. AFP also
includes creating, formatting, archiving, viewing,
retrieving, and distributing information.
Advanced Function Presentation Application
Programming Interface. An AFP program shipped
with PSF for OS/390, PSF/MVS 2.1.1, PSF/VM 2.1.1,
and PSF/VSE 2.2.1 programs that creates the AFP data
stream from the COBOL and PL/I high-level
programming languages.
Advanced Function Presentation Conversion and
Indexing Facility. An AFP program you can use to
convert a print file into a MO:DCA-P document, to
retrieve resources used by the document, and to index
the file for later retrieval and viewing.
Advanced Function Presentation data stream. A
presentation data stream that is processed in the AFP
environment. MO:DCA-P is the strategic AFP
interchange data stream. IPDS is the strategic AFP
printer data stream.
Advanced Function Presentation Workbench for
OS/2 and Windows. (1) An IBM-licensed PC product
that allows you to see AFP output in a WYSIWYP
(what-you-see-is-what-you-print) format. (2) A platform
for the integration of AFP-enabling applications and
services.
AFP. See Advanced Function Presentation.
AFP API. Advanced Function Presentation Application
Programming Interface
AFPDS. A term formerly used to identify the composed
page, MO:DCA-P-based data stream interchanged in
AFP environments.
AIX (Advanced Interactive Executive). An IBM
operating system.
anchor point. The point in a document that signals to
ACIF the beginning of a group of pages, after which it
adds indexing structured fields to delineate this group.
ANSI. American National Standards Institute
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