Library: Policy
OKDHS:2-41-4. Definitions
Revised 9-1-09
The following words and terms when used in the Part, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Application" means a software program designed to enable end users to carry out a specific task or function. Word processors, spreadsheets, graphics programs, and data managers are application examples.
"Automated information systems" means computerized processes which collect, store, calculate, and display or report information about business processes.
"Bus" means a subsystem that transfers data between computer components inside a computer or between computers. In a network, a bus is a transmission path on which signals are dropped off or picked up at every device attached to the line. Only devices addressed by the signals pay attention to them; the others discard the signals.
"Channel Service Unit/Digital Service Unit (CSU/DSU)" means a system that converts electronic computer protocol to digital telephone protocol and vice versa.
"Confidential data" means any piece of data or set of data, the misuse of which violates existing laws or policy, violates client confidentiality or privacy, creates a liability exposure for Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS), or creates the opportunity for fraud or other illegal activities.
"Controller" means a device that acts as the electrical and logical interface between data terminal equipment and a local area network bus.
"DB2 (Database-2)" means the InternationaI Business Machines (IBM) strategic product for general purpose information storage, including database management. It is a reasonably complete implementation of the relational technology. The most strategic component or aspect of DB2 is the interface Structured Query Language (SQL). DB2 is properly viewed as an SQL engine.
"Database architecture" means overall plan and design for OKDHS data structure.
"Data Security" means processes and procedures to ensure data collected and maintained by OKDHS is protected from inadvertent or intentional damage or misuse.
"Hardware" means terminals, printers, personal computers, CSU/DSU, controllers, routers, hubs, servers, and central site equipment.
"Information Management System (IMS)" means an IBM software product providing an environment for database and transaction processing and database management.
"ITB" means invitation to bid.
"Local Area Network (LAN)" means a hardware and software environment consisting of a central computer, referred to as a server, that has multiple personal computer workstations, referred to as client(s), and allows or supports telecommunications among the clients.
"Network" means a configuration of data processing devices and software connected for information exchange.
"PC" means personal computer.
"Remote access" means a technology that allows the capability to dial-in or dial-out of a computing capability or network.
"Router" means a device that performs a function similar to a local or remote bridge. Routing, however, occurs at Layer 3 of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model.
"Server" means main controller for a PC hooked to a LAN.
"Virus" means an unauthorized data processing application which may alter or destroy computerized data and/or equipment.
"Wide Area Network (WAN)" means telecommunications network composed of multiple LANs connected via server, routers, hubs, and phone lines.
"Workstation" means the individual OKDHS employee's PC and printer.
