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== Acronyms == | == Acronyms & Initialisms == | ||
; AFP | ; AFP | ||
: Advanced Function Presentation, a print-stream format made popular by IBM. | : Advanced Function Presentation, a print-stream format made popular by IBM. AFP Streams can contain 'resources' - data that defines the size of a page, segments, fonts, and graphics like logos and bar-codes. IBM Content Manager OnDemand saves these AFP Resources separately, and compresses the remaining data, with compression ratios that regularly exceed 90%. When Content Manager OnDemand retrieves an individual document, the resources are added to the data file, to create a document that can be recreated with perfect fidelity. | ||
; AIX | ; AIX | ||
: Advanced Interactive eXecutive. IBM's UNIX operating system for servers containing POWER processors. | : Advanced Interactive eXecutive. IBM's UNIX operating system for servers containing POWER processors. AIX was one of the first platforms supported by IBM Content Manager OnDemand. | ||
; ARS | ; ARS | ||
: The prefix for all CMOD commands. Rumoured to stand for 'Archive Retrieval System'. | : The prefix for all CMOD commands. Rumoured to stand for 'Archive Retrieval System'. You can find information on IBM Content Manager OnDemand commands like [[arssockd]] and [[arsdoc]] elsewhere on the wiki. | ||
; AWS | |||
: Amazon Web Services. Probably the world's largest Cloud Computing provider. Allows access to Servers, Storage, and Software for a monthly fee. (See 'S3' below.) | |||
; CMOD | ; CMOD | ||
: Content Manager OnDemand, IBM's Enterprise Report Management software. | : IBM Content Manager OnDemand, IBM's Enterprise Report Management software. CMOD has consistently been the #1 ERM software product as ranked by Gartner since shortly after it's release. It offers the highest compression ratios and highest reliability for print streams, XML, and PDF data. | ||
; COLD | ; COLD | ||
: Computer Output to Laser Disc - a generic term that referred to data storage systems that stored digital files on Laser Disc, for example, Magneto-Optical or WORM discs. | : Computer Output to Laser Disc - a generic term that referred to data storage systems that stored digital files on Laser Disc, for example, Magneto-Optical or WORM discs. This acronym has been successively replaced by "Enterprise Content Management" and "Enterprise Report Management" over the years. The concept has remained the same -- store print data where it can be compressed and stored efficiently, and retrieved easily via an orgamization's internal network, or over the Internet through the [[ODWEK|IBM Content Manager OnDemand Web Enablement Kit]]. | ||
;DBA(s) | ;DBA(s) | ||
: DataBase Administrator(s). These are the people (or team) that are responsible for ensuring the usability and security of information stored in database products like IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, or Oracle. You should refer to them when you have questions about the underlying database used by Content Manager OnDemand, or request their assistance when it comes to critical tasks like taking backups and testing restores. | : DataBase Administrator(s). These are the people (or team) that are responsible for ensuring the usability and security of information stored in database products like IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, or Oracle. You should refer to them when you have questions about the underlying database used by IBM Content Manager OnDemand, or request their assistance when it comes to critical tasks like taking backups and testing restores. | ||
; DMS | ; DMS | ||
: Database Managed Space - an older method for allocating storage to databases. In DB2, a system administrator would allocate a raw device (a 'logical volume' in AIX, a 'slice' in Solaris, or a 'partition' in Linux) for DB2's exclusive use. Databases now largely use the SMS method for | : Database Managed Space - an older method for allocating storage to databases. In DB2, a system administrator would allocate a raw device (a 'logical volume' in AIX, a 'slice' in Solaris, or a 'partition' in Linux) for DB2's exclusive use. Databases now largely use the SMS method for the increased reliability offered my modern file systems, with features like journaled file systems, redundancy, compression, expandability. | ||
; ECM | ; ECM | ||
: Enterprise Content Management - a newer, more generic term than COLD. | : Enterprise Content Management - a newer, more generic term than COLD, recently giving way to the more descriptive and accurate "Enterprise Report Management" or ERM. ECM broadly refers to a variety of content management solutions, all with different features (Workflow, Records Management, Archiving, etc.) | ||
; ERM | ; ERM | ||
: Enterprise Report Management - specifically, the storage of reports and records for an organization. The narrower focus of ERM is the long-term archiving, retention, searching, and | : Enterprise Report Management - specifically, the storage of reports and records for an organization. The narrower focus of ERM is the long-term archiving, retention, searching, retrieval, and eventual disposition or deletion of documents, primarily for legal or regulatory compliance, but more frequently to improve customer experience and reducing support costs by allowing customers to access their information through web-based portals, or smartphone applications. | ||
; FORMDEF / PAGEDEF | ; FORMDEF / PAGEDEF | ||
: Form Definition / Page Definition. A component of an AFP data stream, defining the parameters of a form or page. | : Form Definition / Page Definition. A component of an AFP data stream, defining the parameters of a form or page. FORMDEFS and PAGEDEFS can either be included inside an AFP data stream, or stored in a 'library' on the CMOD server or high-volume printers. | ||
; FTP | ; FTP | ||
: File Transfer Protocol. A standard method for transferring files across TCP/IP networks. FTP is insecure, and should only be used on protected internal networks. Use SFTP | : File Transfer Protocol. A standard method for transferring files across TCP/IP networks. FTP is insecure, and should only be used on protected internal networks. Use a secure method for file transfers, like SFTP, NDM, MQ Series File Transfer Edition. | ||
; ICN | ; ICN | ||
: IBM Content Navigator - a highly flexible, customizable, and modern front-end for many IBM ECM | : IBM Content Navigator - a highly flexible, customizable, and modern front-end for many IBM Products in the ECM space, including FileNet P8, Content Manager v8, and Content Manager OnDemand. IBM Content Navigator is built to be modular, to allow for programmers to easily reuse sections of the interface in their own code, or for the Content Navigator interface to be customized and 'branded' with customer logos and colors. | ||
; GIF | ; GIF | ||
: Graphic Interchange Format - a rather old | : Graphic Interchange Format - a rather old image format with limited colors (256) and relatively poor compression by today's standards. As long as an image contains less than 256 colors, the image compression is lossless, unlike JPEG. | ||
; JPEG | ; JPEG | ||
: Joint Photographic Experts Group - a method of 'lossy' compression, primarily used for full colour photographs. | : Joint Photographic Experts Group - a method of 'lossy' compression, primarily used for full colour photographs. JPEG saves storage space by discarding information in a way intended to be imperceptible to humans. The compression ratio can be adjusted to keep more data (at the cost of larger files) or save more space, which results in visible 'compression artifacts' leading to a loss of detail. | ||
; JES | ; JES | ||
: [http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/zosbasics/com.ibm.zos.zconcepts/zconc_whatisjes.htm Job Entry Subsystem.] In CMOD, JES is a source of mainframe output data from reports "the JES spool". This output data can be downloaded directly from a mainframe using arsjesd. | : [http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/zosbasics/com.ibm.zos.zconcepts/zconc_whatisjes.htm Job Entry Subsystem.] In CMOD, JES is a source of mainframe output data from reports "the JES spool". This output data can be downloaded directly from a mainframe using arsjesd. arsjesd has become rather unpopular as a method for transferring files, as it does not support encryption to keep data private, is not restartable, and offers no ability to report on the success or failure of loading the received file. | ||
; LDAP | ; LDAP | ||
: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - a centralized system for authenticating users to a variety of systems, and conveying entitlements to those users through group membership. Content Manager OnDemand supports authenticating users via LDAP, and provides entitlements via membership in groups. | : Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - a centralized system for authenticating users to a variety of systems, and conveying entitlements to those users through group membership. IBM Content Manager OnDemand supports authenticating users via LDAP, and provides entitlements via membership in groups. Starting in Content Manager OnDemand v10.1.0.2, CMOD supports LDAP Sync - which offers the ability to synchronize users and groups from an Enterprise LDAP server to CMOD's internal User & Group tables. | ||
; NAS | ; NAS | ||
: Network Attached Storage - a class of storage devices, primarily accessed over a standard network connection. | : Network Attached Storage - a class of storage devices, primarily accessed over a standard network connection. Often, NAS devices are referred to as "Cheap and Deep" storage, as they tend to use larger capacity, but slower SATA hard drives in the 2TB to 14TB range. This allows for high storage density at the cost of speed and reliability. | ||
; PDF | ; PDF | ||
: Portable Document Format. Adobe's popular format for creating, viewing, and printing documents that maintain their fidelity (look and feel) across many different types of | : Portable Document Format. Adobe's popular format for creating, viewing, and printing documents that maintain their fidelity (look and feel) across many different types of platforms (i.e. Mac, Windows, Linux, UNIX) | ||
: IBM Content Manager OnDemand's PDF Indexer now has the ability to 'de-duplicate' the contents of PDFs, in much the same way as Content Manager OnDemand does for AFP documents with the ACIF indexer. | |||
; POWER | ; POWER | ||
: Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC. IBM's custom-designed server-grade | : Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC. IBM's custom-designed server-grade Central Processing Units (CPUs). IBM's POWER CPUs focus on providing the maximum amount of computing power, at the cost of energy efficiency and therefore heat dissipation. IBM's POWER servers are known for being power hungry and requiring substantial cooling -- meaning they are often very loud. | ||
; PSEG | ; PSEG | ||
: Page Segment. A component of an AFP data stream, defining a portion of a page. | : Page Segment. A component of an AFP data stream, defining a portion of a page. Page Segments are AFP Resources, and as such, are extracted from AFP data streams and grouped into a 'resource bundle', which is one of the ways IBM Content Manager OnDemand saves storage space through de-duplication. | ||
; RISC | ; RISC | ||
: Reduced Instruction Set Computing. Refers to a concept in processor design where the CPU has less-complex individual instructions, but more of them. | : Reduced Instruction Set Computing. Refers to a concept in processor design where the CPU has less-complex individual instructions, but more of them. Opposite of CISC, Complex Instruction Set Computing. The current generation of CPUs is a combination of both RISC and CISC -- including large numbers of parallel RISC-style cores, plus 'extensions' that provide fast CISC functions useful for intensive tasks like data compression and encryption, or processing audio & video. | ||
; S3 | |||
: Simple Storage Service. A product of Amazon Web Services (See 'AWS' Above), the Simple Storage Service allows software to store virtually unlimited amounts of data into the 'cloud' quickly and easily for a relatively low price per gigabyte. IBM Content Manager OnDemand S3 support was enabled in v9.5.0.4. See [[ars.cfg]] for information on configuring Content Manager OnDemand for Cloud Storage with Amazon S3. | |||
; SFTP | ; SFTP | ||
: Secure File Transfer Protocol. Similar to FTP only in name. | : Secure File Transfer Protocol. Similar to FTP only in name. SFTP assures strong authentication ("I am who I say I am"), privacy (contents are encrypted in transit), and integrity (contents are verified for fidelity). All current systems should remove FTP and replace it with SFTP or another secure file transfer method. Authentication can be performed through the use of passwords (which are cryptographically hashed before being sent over the network) or through Symmetric Public Key Encryption - a method by which two keys (one private, and one public) are used to exchange information (like authentication credentials) securely. | ||
; SMS | ; SMS | ||
: System Managed Space - in DB2, SMS Tablespaces exist on regular filesystems. Your operating system may provide features like journals, compression, | : System Managed Space - in DB2, SMS Tablespaces exist on regular filesystems. Your operating system may provide features like journals, compression, redundanacy, or caching, making SMS preferable to the older DMS method. See DMS above for the older storage method, Database Managed Space. | ||
; TCP/IP | ; TCP/IP | ||
: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol. The network protocol used in the overwhelming majority of organizations, and the internet at large. TCP/IP version 4 is common and extremely popular. TCP/IP v6 has been available for nearly a decade, but adoption of v6 is slow due to the perceived complexity and incompatibility with legacy software. | : Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol. The network protocol used in the overwhelming majority of organizations, and the internet at large. TCP/IP version 4 is common and extremely popular. TCP/IP v6 has been available for nearly a decade, but adoption of v6 is slow due to the perceived complexity and incompatibility with legacy software. IBM Content Manager OnDemand operates by default on TCP port 1445 for unencrypted communications, and administrators frequently use TCP Port 1446 for SSL/TLS encrypted connections. | ||
; TIFF | ; TIFF | ||
: Tagged Image File Format - a graphic image format primarily used to store black and white or greyscale scanned images. Originally developed by Adobe, TIFF has become an international standard. | : Tagged Image File Format - a graphic image format primarily used to store black and white or greyscale scanned images. Originally developed by Adobe, TIFF has become an international standard. TIFF is actually a container format, which means that it can use many different image compression methods to store documents efficiently. The latest standards are JBIG and JBIG2, but due to patent issues, these standards are not widely supported across platforms and tools. | ||
; TSM | ; TSM | ||
: Tivoli Storage Manager (or TSM) is used to connect OnDemand to a wide variety of storage technologies, such as tape, tape libraries, optical drives, optical jukeboxes, or proprietary devices like EMC Centera. TSM has three main uses - Archive, Backup, and HSM. CMOD utilizes the 'Archive' component to provide long-term management of data loaded into CMOD. | : Tivoli Storage Manager (or TSM) is used to connect OnDemand to a wide variety of storage technologies, such as tape, tape libraries, optical drives, optical jukeboxes, or proprietary devices like EMC Centera. TSM has three main uses - Archive, Backup, and HSM. CMOD utilizes the 'Archive' component to provide long-term management of data loaded into CMOD. In 2017, Tivoli Storage Manager was renamed "Spectrum Protect" after version v7.1.4. The features, functionality, and compatibility are preserved across versions. | ||
;WORM | ;WORM | ||
: Write-Once, Read-Many - a type of unalterable, permanent storage, primarily optical disks in the years prior to 2005, but also magnetic tape and magnetic hard disc drives. | : Write-Once, Read-Many - a type of unalterable, permanent storage, primarily optical disks in the years prior to 2005, but also magnetic tape and magnetic hard disc drives. WORM storage is often required for various regulatory agencies and many local and national government regulations. The main criticism of WORM storage is that once the data on the device has expired, it cannot be re-used, and must often be certifiably destroyed to comply with privacy laws. Since IBM Content Manager OnDemand v10.1 supports both document encryption and cryptographic hashing, the requirement for WORM storage devices may be relaxed, as any tampering with the encrypted data would render it irrecoverable, and any alteration of the underlying document would be detected through a change to the cryptographic hash at retrieval time. | ||
; XML | ; XML | ||
: eXtensible Markup Language. A flexible data structure for storing data. See the [http://www.odusergroup.org/forums/index.php?topic=2421.0 IBM CMOD XML Indexer presentation on ODUG] (Login Required, new registrations approved within 48 hours) | : eXtensible Markup Language. A flexible data structure for storing data. See the [http://www.odusergroup.org/forums/index.php?topic=2421.0 IBM CMOD XML Indexer presentation on ODUG] (Login Required, new registrations approved within 48 hours, use your corporate eMail account) Not only can XML data be quickly and easily ingested into IBM Content Manager OnDemand, the XML data can be displayed in different ways for different devices or users, by altering the style sheets. Content Manager OnDemand de-duplicates and compresses XML data in the same way it stores AFP and PDF data, leading to reduced storage costs for customers. | ||
== Terms Specific to Content Manager OnDemand == | == Terms Specific to Content Manager OnDemand == | ||