- 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 fixed-length area of direct access storage in which VSAM stores records and creates distributed free space. The control interval is the unit of information that VSAM transmits to or from direct access storage. A control interval always includes an integral number of physical records.<br />(2) In a key-sequenced data set or file, the set of records that an entry in the sequence-set index record points to.
Industry:Software
(1) A sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and run without a user's intervention.<br />(2) In the Integrated Language Environment (ILE) model, the executable object that results from binding modules together.<br />(3) A file containing a set of instructions that conform to a particular programming language syntax.<br />(4) A prepared sequence of instructions to the system to accomplish a defined task. In POSIX.2, a programme encompasses applications written in the shell command language, complex utility input languages, and high-level languages (HLLs).<br />(5) A single, compilable collection of executable statements in a programming language.
Industry:Software
(1) A flag that is formed by a character or a sequence of characters to group or separate items of data by marking the beginning and end of a unit of data. The delimiter is not a part of the flagged unit of data.<br />(2) A character, such as comma or tab, used to group or separate units of text by marking the boundary between them.
Industry:Software
(1) A form of a fullselect that is enclosed within parentheses and used as a component of a query.<br />(2) In SQL, a subselect used within a predicate. For example, a select-statement within the WHERE or HAVING clause of another SQL statement.
Industry:Software
(1) A form of access permitted for a file.<br />(2) The manner in which files are referred to by a computer. See also dynamic access, random access, sequential access.<br />(3) One of the modes in which a logical unit (LU) in a disc controller system can operate. The three access modes are image mode, managed space mode, and unconfigured mode. See also unconfigured mode, managed space mode, image mode.
Industry:Software
(1) A serial arrangement of processors or a serial arrangement of registers within a processor. Each processor or register performs part of a task and passes results to the next processor; several parts of different tasks can be performed at the same time.<br />(2) A direct, one-way connexion between two or more processes.<br />(3) In printers, the hardware path between the channel station or received-page station and the stacker.<br />(4) A message processing procedure that consists of one or more programmes known as stages.
Industry:Software
(1) A form of I/O processing in which DB2 for z/OS initiates multiple concurrent requests for a single user query and performs I/O processing concurrently (in parallel) on multiple data partitions.<br />(2) The process of reading from or writing to two or more I/O devices at the same time to reduce response time.
Industry:Software
(1) A series of commands, combined in a file, that carry out a particular function when the file is run. Scripts are interpreted as they are run.<br />(2) The logical flow of actions for a 3270 server program.<br />(3) An exact text for the telesales service representative to read to a customer regarding transactions. Scripts can be short-hand or prompts to remind a representative to say certain things to a customer at certain points during a call.
Industry:Software
(1) A free-standing structure or frame that can hold multiple servers and expansion units.<br />(2) See enclosure.
Industry:Software
(1) A series of input/output operations that are being done separately from the job that requested them.<br />(2) The nonsequential processing of read and write requests across multiple disks.
Industry:Software
