(1) In the C language, the range within a programme in which a declaration is known.
(2) The extent to which the semantic effects of language statements reach. The scope may be to the job or to the activation group.
(3) The level to which a commitment control definition applies.
(4) Information that is used to describe whether the scheduling policy indicates that threads compete directly with other threads within the process or within the system.
(5) In Web services, a property that identifies the lifetime of the object serving the invocation request.
(6) A named part of the CICSPlex SM environment that qualifies the context of a CICSPlex SM request. The scope can be the CICSplex itself, a CICS system, a CICS system group, or any set of CICS resources that are defined as a logical scope in a CICSPlex SM resource description. See also context.
(7) A specification of the boundary within which system resources can be used.
(8) The effective range of the enablement of a condition, the establishment of a user-generated routine to handle a condition, or both. Scope can be both statically and dynamically defined. See also namespace scope.
(9) In identity management, the set of entities that a policy or an access control item (ACI) can affect.