(1) An optional facility that allows an application programme to accumulate information acquired through multiple interchanges with a terminal, even though the programme terminates between interchanges. Conversation information for the active and held conversations is significant status that can optionally be kept in the RM if a status recovery mode of GLOBAL is selected. See also conversation.
(2) An optional IMS facility that allows a user's application programme to accumulate information acquired through multiple interchanges with a terminal, even though the programme terminates between interchanges. In the context of IMS Connector for Java, the interchanges are between a Java client programme and a user's application program. See also IMS conversation.