(1) In OSI, a service primitive issued by a service user to complete the procedures associated with a confirmed service. See also command.
(2) In SDLC, a frame transmitted by a secondary station. Stations using asynchronous balanced mode send both commands and responses.
(3) In SNA, a message unit that acknowledges receipt of a request; a response consists of a response header (RH), a response unit (RU), or both.
(4) A message inserted to a logical terminal destination specified by an I/O PCB or an alternate response PCB. When VTAM is used, the term reply is substituted for response because response has a separate meaning in VTAM communications. See also primary request, secondary request.
(5) In speech recognition, the character string returned by the recognizer, through DVT_Client, to the state table. The string represents the outcome of a recognition attempt. This is the word or words that the recognizer considers to be the best match with the speech input.
(6) In a request/response interaction, a message from a connector to a collaboration that carries the results of a request made by the collaboration. The message can be either a business object or a response code.