- Industry: Computer
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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 collection of user information, such as user IDs and passwords, that is used as the basis for security control by a system such as a Web application server.<br />(2) A database of known users and user-provided information that is used for authentication purposes.
Industry:Software
(1) A parameter that must appear in a specified location, relative to other parameters. See also keyword parameter.<br />(2) A variable within a shell program. Positional parameters are assigned from the shell's arguments when the shell is invoked
Industry:Software
(1) A collection of WebSphere Application Server nodes that defines a boundary for server cluster formation.<br />(2) Nodes having similar attribute values and defined as a group to facilitate node management.
Industry:Software
(1) A parameter whose value limits or defines the resources that can be used by the database manager or a database. Some configuration parameters are informational and define characteristics about the environment that cannot be changed. See also database configuration parameter.<br />(2) A variable that controls the behaviour of the system or the behaviour of all applications running on the system.
Industry:Software
(1) A column or an ordered collection of columns that is identified in the description of a table, index, or referential constraint. The same column can be part of more than one key.<br />(2) A cryptographic mathematical value that is used to digitally sign, verify, encrypt, or decrypt a message. See also private key, public key.<br />(3) One or more characters within an item of data that are used to uniquely identify a record and establish its order with respect to other records. See also alternate-index record.<br />(4) A button on a keyboard or key pad.<br />(5) Information that characterises and uniquely identifies the real-world entity that is being tracked by a monitoring context.
Industry:Software
(1) A part of an XQuery path expression that generates a sequence of items and then philtres the sequence by zero or more predicates. The value of the step consists of those items that satisfy the predicates. See also node test, path expression.<br />(2) To cause a computer to run one operation.
Industry:Software
(1) A communication sent from a person or programme to another person or program.<br />(2) In OSI Message Services, a piece of electronic mail in the format of the X.400 CCITT standard. An X.400 message can be a document, note, message, or file.<br />(3) An assembly of characters and sometimes control codes that is transferred as an entity from an originator to one or more recipients. A message consists of two parts: envelope and content.<br />(4) A formatted transfer unit used to exchange control or payment information.<br />(5) In system programming, information intended for the terminal operator or system administrator.<br />(6) A set of data that is passed from one application to another. A message can be modelled by a message definition, which describes the structure and content of the message. Messages must have a structure and format that is agreed by the sending and receiving applications. See also category.<br />(7) In UML modeling, a model element that defines a specific kind of communication between participants (roles or objects) in an interaction.
Industry:Software
(1) A part of the i5/OS operating system that includes the application programming interfaces and the underlying file system support. HFS enables an application written in a high-level language to create, store, retrieve, and manipulate data on a storage device. The view of the data to the user is a hierarchical directory structure similar to DOS.<br />(2) A system for organising files in a hierarchy, as in a UNIX system.
Industry:Software
(1) A communications common carrier network that provides data communications services over switched or nonswitched lines.<br />(2) A network operated by a government or private organisation to provide computer communications to the public, usually for a fee. With a PDN, a small organisation can create a WAN without incurring the equipment costs of long-distance circuits.
Industry:Software
(1) A particular computing system, including the work it does and the people who manage it, operate it, apply it to problems, service it, and use the results it produces.<br />(2) The process of adding a hardware or software component to a computing environment.<br />(3) A set of artefacts from one or more DB2 database products.
Industry:Software
