Acronyms
Standards/Processes
OS/Platform
History of Oncor
Applications
100
ACIS (Allocation of jobs to contractors and payment of invoices via the internet)
What is Automated Contractor Information System?
100
This guideline allows secure file exchange and storage within Oncor and with select 3rd parties.
What is GPG guideline?
100
This Linux command is used to count the total number of lines, words and character in a file.
What is countw?
100
In 1882 Dallas was first served by this?
What is electricity?
100
This solution consolidates disparate centers of file transfers, and intelligent routing and content-driven transformation help to optimize file delivery processes.
What is Sterling File Gateway (SFG)?
200
FAM (A part of the FIM module)
What is Financial Asset Management?
200
This guideline is used to protect sensitive information that travels between applications and web browsers.
What is the Digital Certificate Guideline?
200
Known for its suitability for symmetric multiprocessing where two or more identical processors are connected to a shared main memory and a single OS instance controls all the processors
What is Solaris?
200
In 2002 TXU created this as its regulated electric-delivery company.
What is Oncor?
200
This application performs long term data storage and management for the vast quantities of data delivered by smart metering systems.
What is MDMS?
300
WMIS (A part of DIS and used for work order tracking)
What is Work Management Information System?
300
Any action which, when taken, alters the system configuration or environment of an established baseline, whether the action is an upgrade, modification or addition to hardware, software, firmware, application, documentation, network, IT infrastructure or any services
What is Change Management?
300
This system stores the majority of its configuration in theObject Data Manager (ODM).
What is AIX?
300
This was passed by the Texas Legislature beginning the deregulation of the state's electric industry.
What is Senate Bill 7?
300
This application is a field operations management application that focuses on improving corporate performance by managing and optimising a company's business processes
What is BPM?
400
DEIS (Used to track identifiable distribution equipment e.g., transformers, capacitors and regulators from first use to decommissioning)
What is Distribution Equipment Information System?
400
Process by which the goal is to restore normal service operation as quickly as possible, thus ensuring that the best possible levels of service quality and availability are maintained
What is Incident Management?
400
Linus Torvalds, a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, started developing this OS in 1991.
What is Linux?
400
This was passed in 1975 creating the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
What is the Texas Public Utility Regulatory Act?
400
This application maintains records of the waste received at System Operation Services Facility, including the point of origin, waste stream, quantity, dates received and shipped for disposal for each unit. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires more detailed records to be kept for some waste streams.
What is Waste and Warehouse Management System (W2MS)?
500
SEEN (This is a call in tool that employees use to sign in and out of substations)
What is Substation Entry/Exit Notification?
500
Provides an interface where support analysts can store and search knowledge articles (like troubleshooting steps, problem resolution, change implementation steps, Known Errors, architecture diagrams) that can be referred at a future date for incident resolution / request fulfillment.
What is Knowledge Management?
500
This OS was the first operating system to utilize journaling file systems.
What is AIX?
500
This was the year that TXU became a private company and Oncor was established as a separate company.
What is 2007?
500
This application handles every aspect of utility customer information: service connection, meter reads, rating, billing and more while also undertaking associated functions such as payment processing, collections, field service and meter management. The product evolves with business demands, minimizing cost and risk.
What is CC&B?
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