- 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 function that protects data stored in an auxiliary storage pool from being lost because of the failure of a single disk. When checksum protection is in effect and a disc failure occurs, the system automatically reconstructs the data when the system programme is loaded after the device is repaired. See also device parity protection, mirrored protection.<br />(2) In TCP/IP, the sum of a group of data associated with the group and used for error checking purposes.
Industry:Software
(1) A session that remains active even though there is no activity on the session for a specified period of time.<br />(2) An LU-LU session that VTAM retains after the failure of a VTAM application program. Following the application program's recovery, the application programme restores or terminates the session.
Industry:Software
(1) A function that uses the state of the option indicators to display or print data when a record format is written.<br />(2) In Business Graphics Utility, the selection of fields from a database file for use as data values and data labels.<br />(3) In the GDDM function, the selection of fields from a database file for use as data values.
Industry:Software
(1) A set of access rights to a group of target instances.<br />(2) In Eclipse, a group of functions that can be hidden or revealed in order to simplify the user interface. Capabilities are enabled or disabled by changing preference settings.<br />(3) An abstract definition of functional software characteristics (function, interface, property, event, and so forth) or nonfunctional software characteristics (scalability, portability, performance, and so forth). See also feature.<br />(4) Specific features or characteristics of a piece of software, such as the database version.
Industry:Software
(1) A function, method, or procedure that has its routine logic implemented in a programming language application that resides outside the database, in the file system of the database server. The association of the routine with the external code application is specified by the EXTERNAL clause in the CREATE statement for the routine. See also external function, external procedure, external method, routine.<br />(2) In REXX, a programme external to the user's program, language processor, or both. These routines can be written in any language (including REXX) that supports the system-dependent interfaces used by REXX to start it.<br />(3) A user-defined function or stored procedure that is based on code that is written in an external programming language.
Industry:Software
(1) A set of actions representing a business process within the context of a collaboration. Scenarios can be used to partition a collaboration's logic. For example, if a collaboration handles one type of business object with various possible verbs, the user might develop Create, Update, and Delete scenarios. See also activity.<br />(2) A specific sequence of actions that illustrates behaviors. A scenario may be used to illustrate an interaction or the execution of one or more use-case instances. See also interaction, use case.
Industry:Software
(1) A functional group of Web pages. A topic collection can be a grouping at any level within an information centre hierarchy.<br />(2) A set of closely related topics that is presented in a standard hierarchy within an information unit.
Industry:Software
(1) A set of attributes that represent a business entity (such as Employee), an action on the data (such as a create or update operation), and instructions for processing the data. Components of the business integration system use business objects to exchange information and trigger actions. See also data object, business item, Service Data Objects, business graph, private business object.<br />(2) A specification type of the autonomic computing architecture that defines an aggregation of data segments. This type of specification describes information commonly exchanged among applications.
Industry:Software
(1) A functional unit into which data can be placed, in which it can be retained, and from which it can be retrieved. See also virtual storage.<br />(2) The location of saved information.
Industry:Software
(1) A set of characteristics of the system that hosts the system under test. These characteristics affect the conditions for test execution and the evaluation of test results.<br />(2) A property of the integration test client that is used to specify modules for testing and to control the tests.
Industry:Software
