Category:uniPHARM Dictionary
For the pedant in all of us, this experimental category is intended to define esoteric/in-house terms, or terms which may be technically inaccurate but have established too much of a reputation. Cell Block C is a good example of the former, although we probably don't want to be writing any articles about that... -norwizzle (talk) 11:16, 8 December 2016 (PST)
Part of the intent here is that, to preserve search-term hit accuracy (which is the power behind any wiki), 'inaccurate' terms will not be corrected when discovered. Users are too accustomed to these terms and will continue to refer to them as such, making it a futile attempt to correct (new tricks, too many old dogs LOL). As well as linking to articles, this page itself will itself have definitions (read below).
uniPHARM esoteric terms
- Analyzer: This term is used to describe the ASW data warehouse. Colloquially, it's also 'what InfoManager did' or 'those sales graphs in Infonet'. Analyzer, officially, is merely the Windows-based reporting program developed by IBS that allows business intelligence/power users to extract and analyze data from ASW. The ASW Business Information Warehouse (the data warehouse), is implicated in a lot of reports used in Analyzer, since that entire part of ASW is intended to compile statistics for ease of reporting. Many ASW balance files are also incorrectly referred to as 'Analyzer files'. But whatever, it's Analyzer. I guess.
- JetForms: The correct product name is 'JetForm'. Admittedly, 'JetForms' sounds more natural.
- Mocha: Refers to the telnet-based terminal emulator software. Mochasoft is the third-party maker of the software used to access the IBM i server via green-screen and to interact with the programs contained within the system (ASW, ASW Extensions etc.). TN5250 is the name of the program, and it was named as such because 5250 is the terminal communication protocol which it emulates (IBM 5250 terminals). Mochasoft is not affiliated with IBM or ASW.
- Infonet: Referring to Infonet as the company intranet website is accurate. Infonet referred to as all things WebSmart is not. WebSmart is the development platform. Web Orders and Infonet were created with WebSmart. You can do a million other things with WebSmart besides Web Orders and Infonet.
- WebSmart: WebSmart is a modernization platform. It was named as such because its core purpose and function was to enable IBM i for the web i.e. create websites in an RPG environment. However, its core function as a language translator of sorts (from RPG to their proprietary language, PML) makes it a very powerful tool that would allow a company to program almost entirely with WebSmart (i.e. you don't even have to make web apps).
- Web Orders: Web Orders is the name for our e-commerce system. Indeed it is a website, but it also accurately describes the entire system (the collection of programs and files), and is legitimately (although never acknowledged as such) an extension to our ERP.
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