- kernel
domain
- Major component of CICS providing a consistent linkage
and recovery environment for CICS. The application programmer has no external
interface to kernel linkage.
- Kernel Linkage
- A component
of CICSPlex SM that is responsible for building data structures and managing
the interfaces between the other CICSPlex SM components. The environment built
by Kernel Linkage is known as the method call environment.
- key
- (ISO) One
or more characters within a set of data that contains information about that
set, including its identification. The field in a segment used to store segment
occurrences in sequential order. A field used to search for a database segment
or a data set record.
- key-controlled storage protection
- An MVS facility for protecting access to storage. Access to key-controlled
storage is permitted only when the storage key matches the access key associated with the request.
- keypoint
- The periodic recording
of system information and control blocks on the system log - also the data
so recorded. See also activity keypoint, and warm keypoint.
- keypoint directory element (KPDE)
- In a CICS keypoint, an element
that records the time when a complete set of tie-up records (TURs) was written
to the forward recovery logs.
- key-sequenced data set
(KSDS)
- In an z/OS environment, a VSAM file or data set whose records
are loaded in key sequence and controlled by an index.
- key stroke
interface
- The part of the Front End Programming Interface that
allows a front-end application to specify a sequence of key stroke-like commands,
which is used to define input to a back-end application.
- keyword
- (1) A name, symbol, or mnemonic (abbreviation) that identifies a
parameter.
- (2) The part of a command operand that consists of a specific
character string.
- KPDE
- See keypoint directory element (KPDE).
- KSDS
- See key-sequenced data set (KSDS).
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