- 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 software programme that uses a database manager to provide database services to other software programmes or computers.<br />(2) The server on which the database application and database are installed.<br />(3) A computer that is dedicated to running a database manager to provide database services to other software programmes or computers. See also data server.
Industry:Software
(1) A join method in which a column that is not common to all of the tables being joined becomes part of the resultant table.<br />(2) The result of a join operation that includes the matched rows of both tables that are being joined and preserves some or all of the unmatched rows of the tables that are being joined. See also inner join, join.
Industry:Software
(1) A solid or patterned line of any weight (line width) that extends horizontally across a row or page, or vertically down a column or page.<br />(2) A set of conditional statements that enable computer systems to identify relationships and execute automated responses accordingly.<br />(3) A condition that must be satisfied when performing a business activity.<br />(4) A list of conditions and actions that are triggered when certain conditions are met. Conditions include attributes about an object (file name, type or extension, dates, owner, and groups), the requesting client, and the container name associated with the object. See also file-placement rule.
Industry:Software
(1) A key sequence used to shift operations between different applications or between different functions of an application.<br />(2) To jump from a host session to an application on a workstation, or from the workstation to the host session.
Industry:Software
(1) A special character such as an asterisk (*) or a question mark (?) that can be used to represent one or more characters. Any character or set of characters can replace the wildcard character.<br />(2) A character that is used to represent optional characters at the front, middle, or end of a search term. See also masking character.
Industry:Software
(1) A key that is constrained so that no two of its values are equal. See also constraint, primary key, foreign key.<br />(2) A field or set of fields in a database file that must be unique, ascending, and cannot contain a null value. A unique key can become a parent key.
Industry:Software
(1) A special file that can contain information about the files packaged in a JAR file. (Sun)<br />(2) A text file that specifies the properties of a diagnostic guide or a tool.<br />(3) A shipment confirmation that may contain tracking identification information.
Industry:Software
(1) A keystroke generally indicating the end of a command line.<br />(2) The movement of the printing position or display position to the first position on the same line.
Industry:Software
(1) A special purpose, dedicated computer that attaches two or more networks.<br />(2) A part of the System i Access licenced programmes that handle requests to send and receive data from applications on the personal computer and routes them to the appropriate applications on the system.<br />(3) A computer that determines the path of network traffic flow. The path selection is made from several paths based on information obtained from specific protocols, algorithms that attempt to identify the shortest or best path, and other criteria such as metrics or protocol-specific destination addresses.<br />(4) An attaching device that connects two LAN segments at the reference-model network layer. The LAN segments can use similar or different architectures.<br />(5) An MVS programme that presents a common systems interface for all products providing resource control. Resource managing components (such as CICS) call the MVS router as part of certain decision-making functions in their processing.
Industry:Software
(1) A kind of IMS data sharing that allows multiple subsystem access to the same database, controlled by means of a lock manager. Sharing is at the physical-block level for ISAM or OSAM databases and at the control-interval level for VSAM databases.<br />(2) A method of sharing data among IMSs so that multiple application programmes can access and update data concurrently between multiple IMSs.
Industry:Software
