Abbreviations and Acronyms

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ACF	Adapter Configuration Facility
AIX	Advanced Interactive Executive
AMI	Application Management Interface
AMS	Application Management Specifications
API	Application Programming Interface
APM	Application Performance Management
ARM	Application Response Measurement
ASP	Active Server Pages
BAROC	Basic Recorder of Objects in C
BDT	Bulk Data Transfer
BOC	Business Objects Container
CA	Certificate Authority
CGI	Common Gateway Interface
CICS	Customer Information Control System
CIM	Common Management Information
CLI	Command Line Interface
CMP	Container-Managed Persistence
CMS	Cryptographic Message Syntax
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CTS	Compatibility Testing Standard
DB2	Database 2™
DBCS	Double-byte Character Set
DES	Data Encryption Standard
DLL	Dynamic Link Library
DM	Tivoli Distributed Monitoring
DMTF	Distributed Management Task Force
DNS	Domain Name Service
DOM	Document Object Model
DSN	Data Source Name
DTD	Document Type Definition
EAA	Ephemeral Availability Agent (now QoS)
EJB	Enterprise Java Beans
EPP	End-to-End Probe platform
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
ETP	Enterprise Transaction Performance
GEM	Global Enterprise Manager
GMT	Greenwich Mean Time
GSK	Global Security Kit
GUI	Graphical User Interface
HTML	Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS	HTTP Secure
IBM	International Business Machines Corporation
IDEA	International Data Encryption Algorithm
IE	Microsoft Internet Explorer
IIOP	Internet Inter ORB Protocol
IIS	Internet Information Server
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol
IOM	Inter-Object Messaging
ISAPI	Internet Server API
ITM	IBM Tivoli Monitoring
ITMTP	IBM Tivoli Monitor for Transaction Performance
ITSO	International Technical Support Organization
JCP	Java Community Process
JDBC	Java Database Connectivity
JNI	Java Native Interface
JRE	Java Runtime Environment
JSP	Java Server Page
JVM	Java Virtual Machine
LAN	Local Area Network
LOB	Line of Business
LR	LoadRunner
MBean	Management Bean
MD5	Message Digest 5
MIME	Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions
MLM	Mid-Level Manager
ODBC	Open Database Connectivity
OID	Object Identifier
OLAP	Online Analytical Processing
OMG	Object Management Group
OOP	Object Oriented Programming
ORB	Object Request Broker
OS	Operating Systems
OSI	Open Systems Interconnection
PKCS10	Public Key Cryptography Standard #10
QoS	Quality of Service
RDBMS	Relational Database Management System
RIM	RDBMS Interface Module
RIPEMD	RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest
RTE	Remote Terminal Emulation
SAX	Simple API for XML
SDK	Software Developer's Kit
SHA	Secure Hash Algorithm
SI	Site Investigator
SID	System ID
SLA	Service Level Agreement
SLO	Service Level Objective
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
SQL	Structured Query Language
SSL	Secure Socket Layer
STI	Synthetic Transaction Investigator
TAPM	Tivoli Application Performance Management
TBSM	Tivoli Business Systems Manager
TCL	Terminal Control Language
TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TDS	Tivoli Decision Support
TEC	Tivoli Enterprise Console
TEDW	Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse
TIMS	Tivoli Internet Management Server
TMA	Tivoli Management Agent
TME	Tivoli Management Environment
TMR	Tivoli Management Region
TS	Transaction Simulation
TMTP	IBM Tivoli Monitor for Transaction Performance
UDB	Universal Database
UDP	User Datagram Protocol
URI	Uniform Resource Identifier
URL	Uniform Resource Locator
UUID	Universal Unique Identifier
VuGen	Virtual User Generator
VUS	Virtual User Script
Vuser	Virtual User
W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
WSC	Web Services Courier
WSI	Web Site Investigator
WTP	Web Transaction Performance
WWW	World Wide Web
XML	eXtensible Markup Language

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