Glossary

American National Standards Institution (ANSI) code

A standardized set of numeric or alphabetic codes issued by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to ensure uniform identification of geographic entities through all federal government agencies.

Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)

Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is a high-performance relational database management system for mission-critical, data-intensive environments. It ensures highest operational efficiency and throughput on a broad range of platforms.

Compiler

A compiler is a program that translates a source program written in some high-level programming language into machine code.

Connection string

A string that specifies information about a data source and the means of connecting to it.

Cursor

A cursor is a data selector that passes multiple rows of data to the host program, one row at a time. The cursor indicates the first row, also called the current row of data and passes it to the host program.

Data source name (DSN)

A Data Source Name (DSN) is a data structure that contains information about a specific database that an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver needs to connect to.

Descriptor

A descriptor is a collection of metadata that describes the parameters of a SQL statement or the columns of a result set, as seen by the application or driver.

Directory Service URL (DSURL)

A property called Directory Service URL (DSURL) that indicates which LDAP server to use.

Distributed Transaction Protocol
Graphical User Interface (GUI)

A program interface that makes use of the computer's graphics capabilities to make the program easier to use.

ISO 8859-1

Part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings. It is informally referred to as Latin-1.

Kerberos Authentication

A mechanism for authentication and mutual authentication between a client and a server, or between one server and another server.

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

An application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

Mainframe Connect Direct Connect

Supplies the connectivity tools that allows full integration of mainframe and LAN-based data sources.

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC)

A component that coordinates transactions, which span multiple resource managers, such as databases, message queues, and file systems.

ODBC Driver Manager

The component that manages the communications between user applications and ODBC Drivers.

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)

An open standard Application Programmer Interface (API) used for accessing a database.

Powerbuilder

A popular rapid application development (RAD) tool for building object-oriented client/server applications, the parts of which can be distributedwithin a network.

Protocol Data Units (PDU)

Packages used for communication between clients and servers.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS)

Secure Sockets Layers (SSL)/ Transport Layer Security (TLS) are cryptographic protocols that provide communication security over the Internet.

Sybase EA Server

The leading solution for distributed and Web-enabled PowerBuilder application that leverages a new modular architecture to support custom deployments.

Sybase iAnywhere

A software entity specializing in mobility (mobile computing), management, security and enterprise caliber database software.

Sybase Software Development Kit (SDK)

The Sybase Software Developer's Kit (SDK) provides a programming interface that allows transparent access to any data source, information application, or system services.

Unicode

A computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text.