ABAP
Short for Advanced Business Application Programming it is an object-oriented programming language used to develop applications for the SAP R/3 system, but was originally used for SAP R/2. It was developed by the German company SAP AG.
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Short for Aggregate group Backup And Recovery Support, ABARS is a backup system for MVS S/390 mainframes from IBM. ABARS performs data backup and recovery processes on a predefined set of data called an aggregate. During backup processing, the data is packaged as a single entity in preparation for taking it off-site. This enables the […]
- ABEND
(1) Acronym for abnormal end of task. It refers to software crashes or lossage. Derives from an error message on the IBM 360. (2) Acronym for Absent By Enforced Net Deprivation. Sent in e-mail subject lines warning friends and others of forced loss of Internet access (due to moving, network outages, or illness).
- ABO
Short for Adaptive Binary Optimization. ABO uses the high correlation found in digital content signals and efficiently codes these correlations using a patent-pending algorithm. The correlation is efficiently encoded in appropriate bit-planes to achieve significant compression of data. Further compression is achieved by means of standard entropy source coding techniques such as Huffman Coding. MatrixView […]
- ABR
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- ABS
Short for automatic backup system.