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A 64-bit approximate representation of a real number. See also floating-point number.
Industry:Software
A CICS programme that communicates with batch data interchange terminals, such as the 3790, for bulk transfer of dumps, data sets, and so on.
Industry:Software
A 64-bit or 128-bit representation of a number with a precision of 16 or 34 decimal digits and an exponent. Decimal floating-point numbers include normal numbers, subnormal numbers, and the special values of infinity, NaN, and sNaN. In IBM SQL, decimal floating-point numbers are not considered to be floating-point numbers. See also not-a-number, infinity, signalling NaN, subnormal number, normal number, floating-point number.
Industry:Software
A CICS programme that is invoked at a particular point in CICS processing as if it were part of CICS code. You can modify the supplied programme by including your own logic, or replace it with a version that you write yourself. Examples include the dynamic routing program, and the transaction restart program.
Industry:Software
A CICS programme that is invoked at an exit point (other than an exit point in a domain) to handle the user exit programme associated with that exit point.
Industry:Software
A backup cluster that is defined statically to handle requests if the primary cluster fails.
Industry:Software
A CICS programme used by terminal control to analyse terminal abnormal conditions that are logical unit or node errors detected by VTAM.
Industry:Software
A backup copy of a data set made while the data set is open for update. The backup copy can contain partial updates.
Industry:Software
A CICS programme used with XRF, that runs in its own address space and provides status information about the active and alternate CICS systems. You can use it to automate a restart of failed regions.
Industry:Software