List of abbreviations

ABAP
Advanced Business Application Programming
ACL
Access Control List
AD
Active Directory
ADID
Archive Document Id
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard
AFP
Advanced Function Presentation
AG
Aktiengesellschaft
AM
Ante Meridiem
API
Application Programming Interface
APP
SharePoint application server
ARM
Archive Recovery Management
AS
Application Server
AVG
Average (used in monitoring statistics)
AWK
A programming language for text processing and data extraction (title based on authors’ names Alfred V. Aho, Peter J. Weinberger und Brian W. Kernighan)
AWS
Amazon Web Services
BLOB
Binary Large Object
BPM
Business Process Management
BPMN
Business Process Management Notation
BSI
Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (Federal Office for Information Technology Security in Germany)
C2R
Click-to-Run
CA
Certificate Authority
CAD
Computer-Aided Design
CAM
Computer-Aided Manufacturing
CAS
Client Access Server
CDATA
Character Data
CDB
Container Database
CentOS
Community Enterprise Operating System
CLI
Command Line Interface
CMA
Content Migration Agent
CMIS
Content Management Interoperability Services
CMS
Cryptographic Message Syntax
COLD
Computer Output on Laser Disk (nowadays known as "batch processing")
CPIC
Common Programming Interface for Communications
CPU
Central Processing Unit
CRAM
Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism
cron
command run on (UNIX scheduler)
CR
Concurrent (used in monitoring statistics)
CRT
Creation Time
CRUD
Create, Read, Update and Delete
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
CSP
Content Security Policy
CSR
Certificate Signing Request
CSV
Comma-Separated Values
CTSL
Customer Trust Status List
CU
Cumulative Update
CUD
Create, Update, Delete
DAS
Domain Administration Server
DB
Database
DBCA
Database Configuration Assistant
DD
Two-digit day of the month
DDL
Data Definition Language / Data Description Language
DER
Distinguished Encoding Rules
DFtsrv
Distributed File Transfer Server
DMN
Decision Model and Notation
DMS
Document Management System
DMS
Dokumentenmanagement-System
DN
Distinguished Name
DNS
Domain Name System
DPI
Dots per inch
DSA
Digital Signature Algorithm
DSGVO
Datenschutz-Grundverordnung
DSM
Distributes Services Manager (a legacy ImageMaster 8 component)
DTC
Distributed Transaction Coordinator
EAP
Enterprise Application Platform
EAR
Enterprise Archive (used as filename extension)
EAR
Enterprise Archive (verwendet als Dateierweiterung)
EBNF
Extended Backus-Naur Form
EC
European Commission
ECDSA
Elliptic Curve DSA
ECM
Enterprise Content Management
ECP
Exchange Control Panel
ECS
Elastic Cloud Storage
EDB
EnterpriseDB
EE
Enterprise Edition
EJB
Enterprise JavaBeans
eIDAS
electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services
EMC
Egan, Marino Corporation
ERate
Error Rate (used in monitoring statistics)
ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning
Err
Errors (used in monitoring statistics)
ERS
Evidence Record Syntax
ESE
Enterprise Server Edition
ESR
Extended Support Release
ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EU
European Union
EU
Europäische Union
EWS
Exchange Web Services
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
FIS
File Interoperability Service
FQDN
Fully Qualified Domain Name
FQHN
Fully Qualified Host Name
FSA
File Share Archiver
FtAPI
File Transfer Application Programming Interface (an ImageMaster 8 interface)
FtAPI
File Transfer Application Programming Interface (eine ImageMaster 8 Schnittstelle)
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation
GB
Gigabyte
GCP
Google Cloud Platform
GCS
Google Cloud Storage
GiB
GibiByte
GmbH
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
GnuPG
GNU Privacy Guard
GNU
GNU’s Not Unix (recursive acronym relating to an operating system project often in the context of Linux)
GPU
Graphics Processing Unit
GUI
Graphical User Interface
GUI
Graphical User Interface (grafische Benutzerschnittstelle)
GUID
Globally Unique Identifier
GZIP
GNU ZIP
HCP
Hitachi Content Platform
hh
Two-digit hour of the day
HP-UX
Hewlett Packard Unix
HSTS
HTTP Strict Transport Security
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
HTTPD
HyperText Transfer Protocol Daemon
HTTP(S)
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Secure)
IAIK
Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communication (German: Institut für Angewandte Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikationstechnologie)
IIS
Internet Information Services (by Microsoft)
ILM
Information Lifecycle Management
ILM
Informationslebenszyklusmanagement
IMA
ImageMaster
Ima4MSX
Image Master for Microsoft Exchange (Content Services for E-Mail)
IMA9
ImageMaster (Version) 9
ima-db-tool
ImageMaster Database Tool
ImaFSA
ImageMaster File Share Archiver
ImaSPC
ImageMaster SharePoint Connector
IO (or 'I/O')
Input/output
IP
Internet Protocol
IPv4 / IPv6
Internet Protocol version 4 / Internet Protocol version 6
IS
Integration Service
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
ISO
International Organization for Standardization (Internationale Organisation für Normung)
J2EE
Java 2 Enterprise Edition
JAR
Java ARchive (used as filename extension)
Java EE
Java Enterprise Edition
Java SE
Java Standard Edition
JAWS
Job Access With Speech (name of a screen reader)
JCE
Java Cryptography Extension
JCo
Java Connector (for SAP)
JDBC
Java DataBase Connectivity
JDK
Java Development Kit
JEE
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
JKS
Java KeyStore
JMS
Java Message Service
JMX
Java Management Extensions
JMXMP
Java Management Extensions Messaging Protocol
JNDI
Java Naming and Directory Interface
JRE
Java Runtime Environment
JSON
JavaScript Object Notation
JSVC
Java Service – an Apache software library nowadays known as "Commons Daemon"
JVM
Java Virtual Machine
JWT
JSON Web Token
kB
kiloByte
KiB
KibiByte
KPI
Key Performance Indicator
LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LOTAR
LOng Term Archiving and Retrieval
LRU
Least Recently Used
LTSC
Long-Term Servicing Channel (for Windows Server)
M2M
Machine to machine
MAPI
Messaging Application Programming Interface
Max
Maximum execution time (used in monitoring statistics)
MB
Megabyte
MCR
Maximum Concurrent Requests (used in monitoring statistics)
MDS
Metadata Synchronization Service
MDT
Meta Document Type (a document type in ImageMaster 8)
MiB
MebiByte
Min
Minimum execution time (used in monitoring statistics)
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MM
Two-digit month of the year
mm
Two-digit minute of the hour
MoReq
Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Documents and Records
MoReq
Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Documents and Records (europäischer Standard für das elektronische Records-Management)
MPM
Multi-Processing Module (of the Apache server)
MS
Microsoft
ms
milliseconds
MSI
Microsoft Installer
MS DTC
Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator
MS SQL
Microsoft SQL (Structured Query Language)
MSX
Microsoft Exchange
MTOM
Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism
NFS
Network File System
NLS
National Language Support
NMTOKEN
XML 1.0 name token
nohup
no hang up
NTFS
New Technology File System
MS 365
Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)
OASIS
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OBS
Object Storage Service (for Telekom Cloud)
OCR
Optical Character Recognition
OCSP
Online Certificate Status Protocol
ODAC
Oracle Data Access Components
ODBC
Open Database Connectivity
OJDBC
Oracle Java Database Connectivity
OL
Outlook
Oop
Ordinary object pointer
OPCS
Offline Synchronization, PreCaching and Select (an Outlook Add-In process)
Oracle SE
Oracle Standard Edition
Oracle EE
Oracle Enterprise Edition
OS
Operating System
OS X
macOS (operating system by Apple Inc.)
OTC
Open Telekom Cloud
OWA
Outlook Web Application / Outlook Web Access
OWASP
Open Web Application Security Project
P
an L-bit prime in the context of DSA, where "L" is a key length
PDB
Pluggable Database
PDF
Portable Document Format
PDF/A
Portable Document Format for Archiving (for long-term preservation)
PDF/A
Portable Document Format zur Langzeitarchivierung
PDM
Product Data Management
PEA
Pool Entry Authorization
PEM
Privacy Enhanced Mail (file format used for a Base64-encoded X.509 certificate)
PKCS
Public Key Cryptography Standards
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
PL
Patch Level
PL/pgSQL
Procedural Language for PostgreSQL
PromQL
Prometheus Query Language
PSA
Privacy and Security Assessment
psql
PostgreSQL
PST
Personal Storage Table (Outlook file format to manage e-mails in a local store)
Q
an N-bit prime in the context of DSA, where "N" is a key length
QWAC
Qualified website authentication certificate
RADIUS
Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
RAID
Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAM
Random Access Memory
RAQL
Relational Algebra Query Language
RBS
Remote Blob Storage
RC
Return Code
RDS
Relational Database Service
RDBMS
Relational Database Management System
REST
Representational State Transfer
Req
Requests – total number (used in monitoring statistics)
RFC
Remote Function Call
RFC
Request for Comments
RGB
Red green blue
RHEL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
RMI
Remote Method Invocation
RPM
RPM Package Manager
RSA
Rivest, Shamir und Adleman
RTM
Release to Manufacturing
S3
Simple Storage Service (for AWS)
SAP
Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing
SAP JCo
SAP Java Connector
SASL
Simple Authentication and Security Layer
SDK
Software Development Kit
SDSK
Standardisiertes Datenschutz- und Sicherheitskonzept
SE
Standard Edition
SFTP
SSH (Secure Shell FileSystem) File Transfer Protocol
SID
System ID/System Identifier (for an Oracle database)
SLES
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SMB
Server Message Block
SMS
Short Message Service
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol
SOG-IS
Senior Officials Group Information Systems Security
SP
Service Pack
SPC
SharePoint Connector
SQL
Structured Query Language
ss
Two-digit second of the minute
SSH
Secure Shell
SSHD
Secure Shell Daemon
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
SSO
Single Sign-On
TB
Terabyte(s)
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TR
Technische Richtlinie (German for "technical guideline")
TR
Technische Richtlinie
TLS
Transport Layer Security
TNE
Transparent Network Encryption
TNS
Transparent Network Substrate
TOML
Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language
TSA
Time-Stamping Authority
TSU
Time-Stamping Unit
TTL
Time To Live
UI
User Interface
ULF
Universal Logging Format
URI
Universal Resource Identifier
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
UTC
Coordinated Universal Time
UUID
Universally Unique Identifier
VM
Virtual Machine
VPN
Virtual Private Network
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
WAR
Web Application Archive (used as a filename extension)
WCAG
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WCF
Windows Communication Foundation
WebApp
Web Application
WebDAV
Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning
WFE
Web Front-end (a type of SharePoint server)
WinRM
Windows Remote Management
WMI
Windows Management Instrumentation
WORM
Write Once Read Multiple
WPS
Windows PowerShell (used as a filename extension)
WS
Web Service
ws
WebSocket
wss
WebSocket Secure
WS Security
Web Services Security
WSDL
Web Services Description Language
XA
eXtended Architecture
XAIP
XML-based Archival Information Package
XML
Extensible Markup Language (also used as a filename extension)
XML
Extensible Markup Language (auch verwendet als Dateierweiterung)
XSD
XML Schema Definition (also used as a filename extension)
XSLT
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
YAML
YAML Ain't Markup Language
YUM
Yellowdog Updater, Modified
YYYY
Four-digit year
ZDA
Zertifizierungsdiensteanbieter