Lexicon

If the CEO dispatches his data exclusively via AS2 (to respond to the casual EDI) instead of via FTP or OFTP, uses AES or DES and shares his signature based upon PGP with his business partners - then maybe the time is right to have a look at our i-effect^® lexicon.


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ABAP

ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is a high level programming language created by the German software company SAP. It is currently positioned as the language for programming SAP´s Web Application Server, part of its NetWeaver platform for building business applications. Its syntax is somewhat similar to COBOL.

ABAP used to be an abbreviation of Allgemeiner Berichtsaufbereitungsprozessor, the German for "generic report preparation processor", but was later renamed to Advanced Business Application Programming. ABAP was one of the first languages to include the concept of Logical Databases (LDBs), which provides a high level of abstraction from the basic database level.

AES

In cryptography, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known as Rijndael, is a block cipher adopted as an encryption standard by the US government. It is expected to be used worldwide and analysed extensively, as was the case with its predecessor, the Data Encryption Standard (DES). AES was adopted by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as US FIPS PUB 197 in November 2001 after a 5-year standardization process (see Advanced Encryption Standard process for more details).

Strictly speaking, AES is not precisely Rijndael (although in practice they are used interchangeably) as Rijndael supports a larger range of block and key sizes; AES has a fixed block size of 128 bits and a key size of 128, 192 or 256 bits, whereas Rijndael can be specified with key and block sizes in any multiple of 32 bits, with a minimum of 128 bits and a maximum of 256 bits.

The key is expanded using Rijndael´s key schedule.

AFP

Advanced Function Printing (AFP) is an IBM architecture and family of associated printer software and hardware that provides document and information presentation control independent of specific applications and devices.

Using AFP, users can control formatting, the form of paper output, whether a document is to be printed or viewed online, and manage document storage and access in a distributed network across multiple operating system platforms. AFP is primarily used in large enterprises with printer rooms and expensive high-speed printers.

AFPDS

An AFP data stream contains of compound documents (MO:DCA mixed object document content architecture) with text, graphical contents, fonts and barcodes.

AFPDSLINE

AFPDSLINE is an IBM iSeries printer data stream. Its data contains a mixture of line data and AFPDS data that specifies placement and presentation information needed for printing.

AIX

AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is the name given to a series of proprietary operating systems sold by IBM for several of its computer system platforms, based on UNIX System V with 4.3BSD-compatible command and programming interface extensions.

ANSI

ANSI "American National Standards Institute” - Council in the United States of America that develops national norms. Similar to DIN in Germany.

ANSI X12

ANSI X12 - National, multi-sector EDI standard in the USA.

AS/400

AS/400 is a previous version of IBM i that was introduced in 1988.

AS2

AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) is a specification about how to transport data securely and reliably over the Internet. It is described in detail in RFC 4130.

Data usually are Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messages but may be of any other message type. AS2 specifies how to connect, deliver, validate and acknowledge data. AS2 creates an envelope for a message which is then sent securely over the Internet. Security is achieved by using digital certificates and encryption.

An implementation of AS2 involves two machines, a client and a server, communicating with each other over the Internet. On the operating system level, the AS2 client may be a server, too, offering its communication services to application software. The client sends data to the server, e.g. a trading partner. On receipt of the message the receiving application sends an acknowledgement or MDN (Message Disposition Notification) back to the sender.

ASCII

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings have a historical basis in ASCII.

ASCII was first published as a standard in 1967 and was last updated in 1986. It currently defines codes for 33 non-printing, mostly obsolete control characters that affect how text is processed, plus 95 printable characters (including the space character).

Barcode

A barcode (also bar code) is an optical machine-readable representation of data. Originally, bar codes represented data in the widths (lines) and the spacings of parallel lines, and may be referred to as linear or 1D (1 dimensional) barcodes or symbologies. They also come in patterns of squares, dots, hexagons and other geometric patterns within images termed 2D (2 dimensional) matrix codes or symbologies. Barcodes can be read by optical scanners called barcode readers, or scanned from an image by special software.