- 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 fibre channel device that connects nodes into a logical loop by using a physical star topology. See also fabric.<br />(2) A customer-facing store that enables partners or clients.<br />(3) A half-duplex device that sums all of its input and then broadcasts that sum on all output to the connected adapters. A hub has a large collision domain and shared media.
Industry:Software
(1) A running component that can be running in parallel with other instances of the same component.<br />(2) A UML model element that represents an actual entity in a system.
Industry:Software
(1) A Fibre Channel topology that provides the underlying structure to interconnect multiple nodes and provides the necessary switching functions to support communication among multiple nodes. See also arbitrated loop, point-to-point.<br />(2) The physical or logical mapping of the location of networking components or nodes within a network. Common network topologies include bus, ring, star, and tree.
Industry:Software
(1) A sealed container that holds the read/write head and disc assembly within a disc unit.<br />(2) The part of a disc unit that contains the read and write heads, the magnetic disks, and the actuators.
Industry:Software
(1) A field or control that is on the Web page of a Web application.<br />(2) A servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSP) file, or a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) file. One or more Web components make up a Web module.
Industry:Software
(1) A section of a directory hierarchy, which is also called a directory tree. The subtree typically starts at a particular directory and includes all subdirectories and objects below that directory in the directory hierarchy; that is, any subdirectories or objects connected to the directory or to any lower level of its subdirectories.<br />(2) A tree structure created by arbitrarily denoting a node to be the root node in a tree. A subtree is always part of a whole tree.
Industry:Software
(1) A field or set of fields in a dependent file of a constraint relationship. Each foreign key value must either match a parent key value in the related parent file or be null.<br />(2) A column or set of columns that refers to a parent key.<br />(3) In a relational database, a key in one table that references the primary key in another table. See also constraint, primary key, unique key.<br />(4) In a federated system, a key in one nickname that references the primary key in another nickname and that the optimizer uses to improve query performance. This key is not validated when operations such as insert and update are performed.
Industry:Software
(1) A section of a JSP set aside for displaying personalised data or content.<br />(2) A space in a library where a cartridge is stored. See also cell.<br />(3) For a fixed-length relative record data set (RRDS), the data area addressed by a relative record number that may contain a record or be empty.
Industry:Software
(1) A field specified in a display file or database file that is reserved for information supplied by a user. See also output field.<br />(2) An area in a presentation space into which the programme accepts input.
Industry:Software
(1) A section of the stack that contains the local variables, arguments, and register contents for an individual routine, as well as a pointer to the previous stack frame.<br />(2) See dynamic storage area.<br />(3) The physical representation of the activation of a routine. The stack frame is allocated and freed on a last-in, first-out basis.
Industry:Software
