Net.Data Reference Guide
- API
- Application programming interface. Net.Data supports three proprietary
APIs for improved performance over CGI processes.
- applet
- A Java program included in an HTML page. Applets work with Java-enabled
browsers, such as Netscape, and are loaded when the HTML page is loaded.
- application programming interface (API)
- A functional interface supplied by the operating system or by a separately
orderable licensed program that allows an application program written in a
high-level language to use specific data or functions of the operating system
or licensed program.
- BLOB
- Binary large object.
- CGI
- Common Gateway Interface.
- cliette
- A long-running process that serves requests from the Web server. The
connection manager schedules cliette processes to serve these requests.
- CLOB
- Character large object.
- Common Gateway Interface
- A standardized way for a Web server to pass control to an application
program and receive data back.
- connection manager
- An executable file, dtwcm.exe, in Net.Data that is needed to support live
connection.
- database
- A collection of tables, or a collection of table spaces and index spaces.
- database management system (DBMS)
- A software system that controls the creation, organization, and
modification of a database and access to the data stored within it.
- data type
- An attribute of columns and literals.
- DBMS
- Database management system.
- firewall
- A computer with firewall software that guards an internal network from
external attacks.
- flat file interface
- A Net.Data language environment that lets you read and write data from
plain-text files.
- html
- hypertext markup language
- http
- hypertext transfer protocol
- hypertext markup language
- A tag language used to write Web documents.
- hypertext transfer protocl
- The communication protocol used between a Web server and browser.
- ICAPI
- Internet Connectin API.
- ICS
- Internet Connection Server
- ICSS
- Internet Connection Secure Server
- Internet
- An international public TCP/IP computer network.
- Internet Connection Server
- IBM's unsecure Web server.
- Internet Connection Secure Server
- IBM's secure Web server.
- intranet
- A TCP/IP network inside a company firewall.
- ISAPI
- Microsoft's Internet Server API.
- Java
- A platform-independent object-oriented programming language especially
useful for Internet applications.
- language environment
- A module that provides access from a Net.Data macro to an external data
source such as DB2 or a programming language such as Perl. Some language
environments are supplied with Net.Data such as Rexx, Perl, and Oracle. You
can also create your own language environments.
- live connection
- A Net.Data configuration that works with the connection manager and Web
server API. Live connection enables database connections to be reused.
- LOB
- Large object.
- NSAPI
- Netscape API.
- null
- A special value that indicates the absence of information.
- path
- A search route used to locate files.
- PERL
- An interpreted programming language.
- port
- A 16-bit number used to communicate between TCP and a higher-level
protocol or application.
- TCP/IP
- Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
- Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
- A set of communication protocols that support peer-to-peer connectivity
functions for both local and wide area networks.
- URL
- Uniform resource locator
- uniform resource locator
- An address that names a http server and optionally a directory and file
name, for example
http://www.software.ibm.com/data/net.data/index.html.
- Web server
- A computer running http server software, such as Internet Connection.
[ Top of Page | Previous Page | Next Page | Table of Contents | Index ]