A proposed information system that is the object of a systems development effort.

A managed system on which an IBM Director task is performed.

The emulator or ROM monitor where the target microprocessor resides, and on which the target program runs.

The system to which you are upgrading (that is, your system as you expect it to exist after you upgrade).

A target system is one where the tests are executed on another platform (called the host system), but they are directed to test another system.

A system accessed by a procedural gateway or transparent gateway. For example, a data source, operating system, real-time system, process control monitor, and so on. Target systems are categorized by access category.

The system that the data is to be migrated into (normally an RDBMS system)