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ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTION TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACCESS METHOD [4 records]

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Record 1 2007-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
DEF

In ACF/VTAM [advanced communications function for the telecommunications access method] for MVS [multiple virtual storage], a facility that enables an application program to specify that a data transfer or related operation is to be carried out in a privileged and more efficient manner.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Informática
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Record 2 2007-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
DEF

In ACF/TCAM [advanced communications function for the telecommunications access method], a delay specified for a buffered station to allow the hardware buffer to be emptied before it receives another message block.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Memorias (Computadoras)
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Record 3 2007-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Transmission
DEF

In ACF/TCAM [advanced communications function for the telecommunications access method], a part of a basic transmission unit between the host access method and the network control program [that] specifies a request for action by some device in the network.

OBS

A BDU consists of a command and its modifiers, functional flags, and a data count.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Transmisión (Telecomunicaciones)
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Record 4 2004-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
DEF

In ACF/TCAM(Advanced Communications Function for the Telecommunications Access Method), a sequence of user specified macro instructions and basic assembler language instructions that invoke routines that examine and process control information in message headers and perform functions necessary to prepare messages for forwarding to their destinations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
DEF

Séquences programmées qui réceptionnent les messages reçus à partir des lignes de télécommunications (contrôle divers de forme, recherche de caractères de service, rangement des messages et constitution de files d'attente), et qui préparent les messages de réponse à envoyer sur les lignes (mise en forme, insertion de caractères de service, ventilations sur différentes voies).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Internet y telemática
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
DEF

Secuencia de macroinstrucciones especificadas por el usuario, e instrucciones del lenguaje ensamblador básico, que invocan las rutinas que examinan y procesan la información de control en los encabezamientos de los mensajes, y ejecutan las funciones necesarias para preparar los mensajes para ser enviados a su destino.

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