Throughout this book, the following terms are used to indicate their associated
meanings:
- Application-owning region (AOR)
- A CICS® region that owns and manages application programs, through functions
provided by a number of CICS control programs, principally the program control
program.
- File-owning region (FOR)
- A CICS region whose primary purpose is to manage VSAM and BDAM files, and
VSAM data tables, through function provided by the CICS file control program.
- CICS
- The CICS element of the IBM® CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®.
- MVS™
- The MVS operating system.
- Queue-owning region (QOR)
- A CICS region whose primary purpose is to manage CICS temporary storage queues and transient
data queues, through function provided by the temporary storage control program
and the transient data control program.
- RACF®
- The MVS resource access control facility (RACF) or any other external security manager
that provides equivalent function.
- Resource-owning region (ROR)
- A CICS region that owns more than one type of resource, such as a combined
file-owning and queue-owning region.
- Terminal-owning region (TOR)
- A CICS region that owns and manages sessions with terminals that logon
directly to the region via VTAM®, using function provided by the CICS terminal control
program.
- XCF PR/SM™ policy
- The function that enables MVS images to take over resources of other MVS images
in the same sysplex. This term is also known as the PR/SM automatic reconfiguration
facility (ARF).
- $ (the dollar symbol)
- In the programming examples in this book, the dollar symbol ($,) is
used as a national currency symbol and is assumed to be assigned the EBCDIC
code point X'5B'. In some countries a different currency symbol, for example
the pound symbol (£), or the yen symbol (¥), is assigned the
same EBCDIC code point. In these countries, the appropriate currency symbol
should be used instead of the dollar symbol.
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