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ABI Application Binary

Interface

ACE Access Control Entries

ACL Access Control List

AD Microsoft Active

Directory

ADSM ADSTAR Distributed

Storage Manager

AFS Andrew File System

AIX Advanced Interactive

eXecutive

ANSI American National

Standards Institute

API Application Programming

Interface

APPC Advanced

Program-to-Program

Communication

APPN Advanced Peer-to-Peer

Networking

ARPA Advanced Research

Projects Agency

ASCII American National

Standard Code for

Information Interchange

ASR Automated System

Recovery

ATM Asynchronous Transfer

Mode

BDC Backup Domain

Controller

BIND Berkeley Internet Name

Domain

BSD Berkeley Software

Distribution

Abbreviations and acronyms

CA Certification Authorities

CAL Client Access License

C-SPOC Cluster single point of

control

CDE Common Desktop

Environment

CGI Common Gateway

Interface

CIFS Common Internet File

System

CIM Common Information

Model

CPI-C Common Programming

Interface for

Communications

CPU Central Processing Unit

CSR Client/server Run time

DAC Discretionary Access

Controls

DARPA Defense Advanced

Research Projects

Agency

DASD Direct Access Storage

Device

DBM Database Management

DCE Distributed Computing

Environment

DCOM Distributed Component

Object Model

DDE Dynamic Data Exchange

DDNS Dynamic Domain Name

System

DES Data Encryption

Standard

DFS Distributed File System

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DHCP Dynamic Host

Configuration Protocol

DLC Data Link Control

DRM Disaster Recovery

Manager

DSA Directory Service Agent

DNS Domain Name System

EFS Encrypting File Systems

EGID Effective Group Identifier

EMS Event Management

Services

ERP Enterprise Resources

Planning

ERRM Event Response

Resource Manager

ESCON® Enterprise System

Connection

ESP Encapsulating Security

Payload

ESS Enterprise Storage

Server

EUID Effective User Identifier

FAT File Allocation Table

FC Fibre Channel

FDDIFEC Fiber Distributed Data

Interface

FEC Fast EtherChannel

technology

FIFO First In/First Out

FQDN Fully Qualified Domain

Name

FSF File Storage Facility

FTP File Transfer Protocol

FtDisk Fault-Tolerant Disk

GC Global Catalog

GDA Global Directory Agent

GDI Graphical Device

Interface

GDS Global Directory Service

GID Group Identifier

GL Graphics Library

GUI Graphical User Interface

HA High Availability

HACMP High Availability Cluster

Multiprocessing

HAL Hardware Abstraction

Layer

HBA Host Bus Adapter

HCL Hardware Compatibility

List

HSM Hierarchical Storage

Management

HTTP Hypertext Transfer

Protocol

IBM International Business

Machines Corporation

IDE Integrated Drive

Electronics

IDS Intelligent Disk

Subsystem

IIS Internet Information

Server

I/O Input/Output

IP Internet Protocol

IPC Interprocess

Communication

IPL Initial Program Load

IPsec Internet Protocol

Security

ISA Industry Standard

Architecture

iSCSI SCSI over IP

ISDN Integrated Services

Digital Network

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ISNO Interface-specific

Network Options

ISO International Standards

Organization

ISV Independent Software

Vendor

ITSO International Technical

Support Organization

JBOD Just a Bunch of Disks

JFS Journaled File System

JVM Java Virtual Machine

LAN Local Area Network

LCN Logical Cluster Number

LDAP Lightweight Directory

Access Protocol

LFS Logical File System

(AIX)

LP

Logical Partition

LPC Local Procedure Call

LUN Logical Unit Number

LVCB Logical Volume Control

Block

LVDD Logical Volume Device

Driver

LVM Logical Volume Manager

MBR Master Boot Record

MDC Metadata Controller

MDM Multiple Device Manager

MFT Master File Table

MIB Management Information

Base

MMC Microsoft Management

Console

MOCL Managed Object Class

Library

MSCS Microsoft Cluster Server

MSS Modular Storage Server

MWC Mirror Write Consistency

NAS Network Attached

Storage

NBC Network Buffer Cache

NBPI Number of Bytes per

I-node

NDMP Network Data

Management Protocol

NFS Network File System

NIM Network Installation

Management

NIS Network Information

System

NTFS NT File System

NVRAM Non-Volatile Random

Access Memory

NetDDE Network Dynamic Data

Exchange

ODBC Open Database

Connectivity

ODM Object Data Manager

OM Object Manager

OS Operating System

OSF Open Software

Foundation

PAM Pluggable Authentication

Module

PCI Peripheral Component

Interconnect

PCMCIA Personal Computer

Memory Card

International Association

PDC Primary Domain

Controller

PDF Portable Document

Format

PFS Physical File System

PHB Per Hop Behavior

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POSIX Portable Operating

System Interface for

Computer Environment

PP Physical Partition

PReP PowerPC® Reference

Platform

PSM Persistent Storage

Manager

PSN Program Sector Number

PV Physical Volume

PVID Physical Volume

Identifier

QoS Quality of Service

RAID Redundant Array of

Independent Disks

RAS Remote Access Service

RDBMS Relational Database

Management System

RISC Reduced Instruction Set

Computer

RMC Resource Monitoring and

Control

RMSS Reduced-Memory

System Simulator

ROLTP Relative OnLine

Transaction Processing

ROS Read-Only Storage

RPC Remote Procedure Call

RSM Removable Storage

Management

RSVP Resource Reservation

Protocol

SAM Security Account

Manager

SAN Storage Area Network

SCSI Small Computer System

Interface

SDK Software Developer's Kit

SFS SAN File System

SID Security Identifier

SMB Server Message Block

SMIT System Management

Interface Tool

SMP Symmetric

Multiprocessor

SMS Systems Management

Server

SNA Systems Network

Architecture

SNMP Simple Network

Management Protocol

SP System Parallel

SQL Structured Query

Language

SSA Serial Storage

Architecture

SSL Secure Sockets Layer

SRM Storage Resource

Manager

SVC SAN Volume Controller

TCP/IP Transmission Control

Protocol/Internet

Protocol

TDP Tivoli Data Protection

TEC Tivoli Enterprise Console

TOS Type of Service

TSM IBM Tivoli Storage

Manager

UDB Universal Database

UDF Universal Disk Format

UFS UNIX File System

UID User Identifier

UNC Universal Naming

Convention

UPS Uninterruptable Power

Supply

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URL Universal Resource

Locator

VCN Virtual Cluster Name

VFS Virtual File System

VG Volume Group

VGDA Volume Group

Descriptor Area

VGSA Volume Group Status

Area

VGID Volume Group Identifier

VIPA Virtual IP Address

VP Virtual Processor

VPD Vital Product Data

VPN Virtual Private Network

VSM Virtual System

Management

W3C World Wide Web

Consortium

WAN Wide Area Network

WLM Workload Manager

WWN World Wide Name

WWW World Wide Web