JDBC Type 4 Driver 1.1 Programmer's Reference

The ability to transfer programs from one platform to another without reprogramming. A

characteristic of open systems. Portability implies use of standard programming

languages, such as C.

Portable Operating System Interface X (POSIX)

A family of interrelated interface standards defined by ANSI and Institute for Electrical

and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Each POSIX interface is separately defined in a

numbered ANSI/IEEE standard or draft standard. The standards deal with issues of

portability, interoperability, and uniformity of user interfaces.

POSIX

See Portable Operating System Interface X (POSIX).

protocol

A set of formal rules for transmitting data, especially across a network. Low-level

protocols define electrical and physical standards, bit-ordering, byte-ordering, and the

transmission, error detection, and error correction of the bit stream. High-level protocols

define data formatting, including the syntax of messages, the terminal-to-computer

dialogue, character sets, sequencing of messages, and so on.

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RDF

See Remote Duplicate Database Facility (RDF).

Remote Duplicate Database Facility (RDF)

The HP software product that does the following:

Assists in disaster recovery for online transaction processing (OLTP) production

databases

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Monitors database updates audited by the TMF subsystem on a primary system and

applies those updates to a copy of the database on a remote system

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scalability

The ability to increase the size and processing power of an online transaction processing

system by adding processors and devices to a system, systems to a network, and so on,

and to do so easily and transparently without bringing systems down. Sometimes called