A mechanism that alters the traffic characteristics of a stream of cells on a connection to achieve better network efficiency, while meeting the quality of service (QoS) objectives, or to ensure conformance at a subsequent interface Traffic shaping must maintain cell sequence integrity on a connection Shaping modifies traffic characteristics of a cell flow with the consequence of increasing the mean Cell Transfer Delay
Temporary Storage A common abbreviation for the CICS management module and its associated functions for data queues in main or auxiliary storage Transaction Server A common abbreviation used with reference to either the CICS Transaction Server for OS/390, z/OS or VSE/ESA
Technical standard A standard made under the Telecommunications Act 1997 relating to customer equipment and networks
The touchstone Touching this will either make you a magic-user, able to cast spells, or kill you dead dead At lower levels, it is invariably the latter, wait until you're at least champion/championne before trying it for the first time!