(1) One or more units of recovery, with the associated application programs, resource managers, and protected resources. A context represents a work request in an application, and the life of a context consists of a series of units of recovery.
(2) A set of one or more grammars that are enabled and used during a recognition action.
(3) A named part of the CICSPlex SM environment that is currently being acted upon by CICSPlex SM. For configuration tasks, the context is a CICSPlex SM address space (CMAS); for all other tasks, it is a CICSplex. See also scope.
(4) A view of a set of related modeling elements for a particular purpose, such as specifying an operation.
(5) The address space for a process, hardware registers, and related kernel data structures.
(6) In ODBC, an application's logical connection to the data source and associated DB2 ODBC connection information that allows the application to direct its operations to a data source. A DB2 ODBC context represents a DB2 thread.
(7) An object created for a service request in the business service model. The object contains one or more of the following details of information captured from the metadata: a business process, organization, role, channel, and domain specific information. See also context propagation.