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Glossary
blackboxIT - blackboxIT develops, implements and supplies software to capture business policies and procedures from both business people and IT systems to create, manage and deploy re-useable business rules and business processes.
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emergeIT - emergeIT enables analysts to find the business rules enforced by COBOL code.
referenced in: emergeIT 1, emergeIT 2, products
evolveIT - evolveIT is a PC tool that enables analysts and programmers to understand complex COBOL applications.
referenced in: evolveIT 1, evolveIT 2, products
rulebox - rulebox captures informal business rules descriptions from legislation, word, excel, visio, and other sources.
referenced in: products
service oriented architecture - Service-Oriented Architecture is an umbrella term for a standardised interface between software so that one program can utilise the functions (services) of another program. SOA typically refers to Web services.
referenced in: emergeIT 1, emergeIT 2, products
legacy - Legacy code is source code that relates to a no-longer supported or manufactured operating system or other computer system. The term can also mean code inserted into modern software for the purpose of maintaining an older or previously supported feature.
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COBOL - COBOL is a third-generation programming language. Its name is an acronym, for COmmon Business Oriented Language, defining its primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
referenced in: products, evolveIT, emergeIT
mainframe - Mainframes are computers used mainly by government institutions and large companies for mission critical applications, typically bulk data processing such as census, industry/consumer statistics, and financial transaction processing.
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business process management - Business Process Management refers to activities performed by businesses to optimize and adapt their processes. BPM tools can be used to monitor the execution of the business processes, providing managers of an organization with the means to analyze their performance and make changes to the original processes in real-time.
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business rules engine - A business rules engine is a software system that helps manage business rules. The rules a business follows may come from legal regulation, company policy, or other sources.
referenced in: products, emergeIT
migration -
BRE - Business Rules Engine
BPM - Business Process Management
SOA - Service Oriented Architecture
BRMS - Business Rule Management System - software to manage and support the business rules of an organisation or enterprise.
referenced in: solutions
SBVR - Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules
BPEL - Business Process Execution Language
IBM - International Business Machines Corporation
z/OS - z/OS is a 64-bit server operating system from IBM, it is the successor to the IBM mainframe operating system OS/390.
OS 390 - OS/390 is an IBM operating system for the System/370 and System/390 IBM mainframe computers.
CICS - Customer Information Control System - a transaction server that runs primarily on IBM mainframe systems.
DB2 - DB2 is IBM's family of information management software products, most commonly referring to IBM's relational database management system, DB2 Universal Database.
JCL - Job Control Language - a scripting language used on IBM mainframe operating systems to instruct the Job Entry Subsystem on how to run a batch program or start a subsystem.
Unisys - Unisys Corporation is a global provider of information technology services and solutions.
OS2200 - Unisys's operating environment for their ClearPath servers.
MCP - Master Control Program - the proprietary operating system of Unisys's ClearPath servers.
WFL - Work Flow Language - developed for the B5000 line of computers and its operating system Master Control Program. It is still used as the operations language on the Unisys ClearPath/MCP range of machines.
IDMS - Integrated Database Management System - a (network) database management system
DMS - Database Management System
ICL - International Computers Ltd
VME - Virtual Machine Environment - a mainframe operating system developed by ICL
SCL - System Control Language - the command language for VME
Appliction Master - Part of an integrated package of tools from ICL, Application Master was used to develop business applications.
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