- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 98482
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Sometimes referred to as “Big Blue” IBM is a multinational corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York. It manufactures computer hardware and software and provides information technology and services.
(1) A setting that defines the assigned processing capacity represented to the operating system. Virtual processors represent a processing capacity less than that of a physical processor. A logical partition in the shared processor pool must have at least as many virtual processors as its assigned processing capacity.<br />(2) The defined processing capacity assigned to an uncapped partition as represented to the operating system.
Industry:Software
(1) A group that worked to establish the standard for the compression of digitised continuous-tone images.<br />(2) The standard for still pictures developed by this group.
Industry:Software
(1) A simple and fundamental data structure, API, algorithm, or system service that serves as a building block for more complex solutions, applications, or environments.<br />(2) A message sent from one process to another.<br />(3) A message processing node that cannot be further subdivided. See also subflow node.
Industry:Software
(1) A grouping of characters or character strings that are considered equal for purposes of collation. For example, many languages place an uppercase character in the same equivalence class as its lowercase form, but some languages distinguish between accented and unaccented character forms for the purpose of collation.<br />(2) A classification of values for which an object is expected to behave similarly.
Industry:Software
(1) A single row of picture elements that are typically arranged horizontally and are scanned sequentially.<br />(2) In a laser printer, one horizontal sweep of the laser beam across the photoconductor.
Industry:Software
(1) A grouping of messages that share certain characteristics. A message domain has an associated parser that interprets messages that are received and generated by a broker. WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker supports messages in the BLOB domain, JMS domain, MRM domain, and XML domain. User-defined parsers can be used to support messages that do not conform to the supported domains.<br />(2) Major component of CICS. It is a repository for CICS messages and it handles the sending of messages to transient data destinations or to the console. It also provides an interface for returning the text of a message to the caller.
Industry:Software
(1) A situation in which a transaction attempts to lock a row or table that is already locked.<br />(2) A condition on a session when two programmes try to start a conversation at the same time.
Industry:Software
(1) A hardware interface to which an I/O device is attached for the purpose of sending and receiving data.<br />(2) An end point for communication between applications, generally referring to a logical connection. A port provides queues for sending and receiving data. Each port has a port number for identification. See also node.<br />(3) In time-slot management, one end of a 64 kbps unidirectional stream which can be attached to the SCBus.<br />(4) As defined in a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document, a single endpoint that is defined as a combination of a binding and a network address.<br />(5) The interface between a collaboration and other objects in the WebSphere business integration system. It is through a port that a collaboration object binds with a connector or with another collaboration object. See also binding.<br />(6) The physical entity within a host, SAN Volume Controller, or disc controller system that performs the data communication (transmitting and receiving) over the fibre channel.<br />(7) To modify a computer programme that runs on a given platform, to enable it to run on a different system.
Industry:Software
(1) A size limitation, such as the limit on the amount of disc space or size of a file set<br />(2) The amount of disc space and number of inodes assigned as upper limits for a specified user, group of users, or fileset.
Industry:Software
(1) A hex value representing one of the 127 possible arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA) values in an arbitrated loop.<br />(2) A unique code that identifies an EDI loop.
Industry:Software
