- 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 connexion that provides the physical transfer of data from one node to another.<br />(2) In a file system, a connexion between a directory and an object. The link is established when the object is created.<br />(3) In hypertext, an author-defined association between two information nodes.<br />(4) In SNA, the combination of the link connexion (the transmission medium) and two link stations (one at each end of the link connection).<br />(5) In TCP/IP, a term for a communications line. A TCP/IP link may share the use of a communications line with SNA.<br />(6) In a file system, a connexion between an i-node and one or more file names associated with it.<br />(7) In data communication, a transmission medium and data link control (DLC) component that together transmit data between adjacent nodes.<br />(8) A line or arrow that connects activities in a process. A link passes information between activities and determines the order in which they run.<br />(9) A directional relationship between two items: the parent and the child. You can use a set of links to model one-to-many associations. See also reference.
Industry:Software
(1) A place (such as a database system, file, or directory) where data is stored.<br />(2) A data structure where documents are kept in their parsed form.
Industry:Software
(1) A connectivity topology that connects a series of systems or expansion units together. Signals can travel in either direction for optimised performance. Redundancy is provided to each unit by treating the connexion as a string when a failure occurs somewhere in the loop.<br />(2) A sequence of instructions performed repeatedly.<br />(3) A closed unidirectional signal path connecting input and output devices to a system.<br />(4) A configuration of devices connected to the fabric by way of a fabric loop port (FL_port) interface card.<br />(5) The physical connexion between a pair of device adapters in the ESS. See also device adapter.
Industry:Software
(1) A place in a programme at which a cheque is made, or at which a recording of data is made to allow the programme to be restarted in case of interruption.<br />(2) A point at which the database manager records internal status information on the log; the recovery process uses this information if the subsystem abnormally terminates.
Industry:Software
(1) A constraint that must be true at the completion of an operation.<br />(2) A textual description defining a constraint on the system when a use case has terminated.
Industry:Software
(1) A point in time when data is considered to be consistent. See also synchronisation point.<br />(2) The point at which an application programme commits that a section of work is done and that the data it has modified or created is consistent and complete. The application program's output, which has been held up to that time, is sent to its destinations, its input is removed from the message queues, and its database updates are confirmed and made available to other applications. A commit point occurs when a programme terminates normally or when it issues a checkpoint call or command. If a programme processes messages, a commit point may also occur when it retrieves a new message.
Industry:Software
(1) A container for the tasks that apply to each role that the user is assigned. The portfolio is the primary way in which a user's work is organised in the interface.<br />(2) The complete inventory of an organization's programmes and projects, or both.
Industry:Software
(1) A pointer that keeps track of the current exception handler.<br />(2) A pointer used by the condition manager as it traverses the stack. The handle cursor points to the condition handler currently being invoked in the stack frame, whether it is a user-written condition handler or a condition handler specific to a high level language.
Industry:Software
(1) A continuous sequence of data elements being transmitted one character at a time, or intended for transmission, using a defined format.<br />(2) In the CVS team programming environment, a shared copy of application resources that is updated by development team members as they make changes. The stream represents the current state of the project.<br />(3) A method of topic partitioning that is used by applications that connect to MQSeries Publish/Subscribe SupportPac brokers.<br />(4) An object that specifies configuration rules for a UCM view.<br />(5) A file access object that allows access to an ordered sequence of characters, as described by the ISO C standard. Such objects can be created by the fdopen() or fopen() functions, and are associated with a file descriptor. A stream provides the additional services of user-selectable buffering and formatted input and output.
Industry:Software
(1) A pointer that tracks the current location at which the exception handler may resume processing after handling an exception.<br />(2) The point in an application at which execution should continue if a condition handler requests the resume action for a condition it is processing.
Industry:Software
