(1) A logical organization of users whose membership allows them to perform the same activities or provide the same authority to access resources.
(2) In a satellite environment, a collection of satellites that share characteristics such as the database configuration and the application that runs on the satellites.
(3) A collection of users who can share access authorities for protected resources.
(4) A named list of users and servers. It can be used in contact lists, access control lists, and so on.
(5) In places, two or more people who are grouped for membership in a place.
(6) In resource definition online, a collection of related resources. The main purpose of an RDO group is convenience in storing definitions in the CSD.
(7) A list of elements with information about how those elements can appear in a message. Groups can be ordered, unordered, or selective.
(8) With respect to partitioned data sets (PDSs), a member and the member's aliases that exist in a PDS or partitioned data set extended (PDSE), or in an unloaded PDSE.
(9) A set of related documents within an interchange. An interchange can contain zero to many groups.