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International Business Machines
Industry: Computer
Number of terms: 98482
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Company Profile:
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 display station from which an operator can control and observe the system operation.<br />(2) In COBOL, a function name associated with the operator's display station.<br />(3) A user interface for one or more administrative tasks. For example, the IBM Integrated Solutions Console integrates the administrative tasks for multiple products and solutions into a single console.<br />(4) A user interface to a server, such as can be provided by a personal computer.
Industry:Software
(1) A restart of IMS following an IMS or MVS failure. See also normal restart, cold start.<br />(2) The CICS backout facility for an automatic restart following a system failure. It restores the recoverable resources updated by each interrupted transaction to the condition they were in when the transaction started.
Industry:Software
(1) A display station from which an operator can control and observe the system operation.<br />(2) The device that is in control of the i5/OS operating system after the system has been shut down and when the system is in a restricted state. Only one device can be the system console at one time. See also backup console.
Industry:Software
(1) A restart that allows reuse of previously initialized input and output work queues. <br />(2) See normal restart.<br />(3) Initialization of a CICS system using selected system status information obtained during the previous termination.<br />(4) The normal DB2 restart process, which involves reading and processing log records so that data that is under the control of DB2 is consistent.
Industry:Software
(1) A distribution of a new product or new function and authorised programme analysis report (APAR) fixes for an existing product. The first version of a product is announced as Release 1 Modification Level 0.<br />(2) In a WebSphere Commerce store, a set of products in a given order that have the same ship-to address, ship time, shipping method, fulfilment center, and shipping carrier. See also packing slip.<br />(3) A subset of an end-product that is the object of evaluation at a major milestone. A release is a stable, executable version of product, together with any artefacts necessary to use this release, such as release notes or installation instructions. See also baseline, prototype.<br />(4) To send changed files from the workbench to the team server so that other developers on the team can catch up (synchronize) with the updated version.<br />(5) To remove suspend criteria from an item. A suspended item is released when the criteria have been met, or when a user with proper authority overrides the criteria and manually releases it.
Industry:Software
(1) A return code that describes the reason for the failure or partial success of a Message Queue Interface (MQI) call.<br />(2) A value used to indicate the specific reason for an event or condition.
Industry:Software
(1) A drop-down menu that is activated by clicking the icon at the left of a window's title bar and that allows users to restore, move, size, minimize, or maximise the window.<br />(2) A list of options that affect the window or the view it contains.
Industry:Software
(1) A return value or possible result from a state table action.<br />(2) In transaction monitoring, the point at which a transaction first comes in contact with the monitoring instrumentation.
Industry:Software
(1) A duplication of the Enterprise Address Book (EAB) data on another system.<br />(2) To duplicate Enterprise Address Book (EAB) data from one system to another and to send EAB changes, additions, and deletions to other systems.
Industry:Software
(1) A reusable Web module that runs on a portal server. Portlets have predefined roles such as retrieving news headlines, searching a database, or displaying a calendar.<br />(2) A Web component that provides specific services or information to users and that is specifically designed to be aggregated with other portlets in the context of a composite page, or portal.
Industry:Software
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