SNA character string A unique character string usually associated with printers A CICS initialization parameter used to specify the size of the CICS storage cushion
SSH Communications Security, Inc Founded by Tatu Ylönen, the inventor of SSH, who now serves as the company's CTO
[BSG] (for "System Configuration Segment") A wired ring 0 data base, initialized from data in the config deck very early in Collection 1, describing the overall system configuration, i e , the CPUs and other active devices and their connections to the SCU's and their status The SCS' metier is knowledge of which ports of what are connected to each other, as well as how much address space is described by each SCU, which are interlaced with each other, etc The SCS is used heavily and modified during system dynamic reconfiguration
Soil Conservation Service An agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that provides technical assistance for resource conservation to farmers, other federal, state and local agencies, and to local soil conservation districts