<communications> (LU 6.2) A type of logical unit that supports general communiation between programs in a distributed processing environment.
LU 6.2 is characterised by a peer relationship between session partners, efficient use of a session for multiple transactions, comprehensive end-to-end error processing and a generic application program interface consisting of structured verbs that are mapped into a product inplementation.
LU 6.2 is used by IBM's TPF operating system.
[IBM Dictionary of Computing, McGraw-Hill 1993].
["LU 6.2" or "LU6.2? Is it IBM-specific?]
(26 Aug 1996)