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International Business Machines
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.
In the storage management subsystem (SMS), an indicator of the availability of a volume for system management: the volume is not ready for system management because it contains data sets that are ineligible for system management; the volume is ready for system management because all of the data sets on a volume have an associated storage class and are catalogued in an integrated catalogue facility (ICF) catalog; the volume will not be managed by the system because it contains no system-managed data sets and has not been initialized as system-managed. See also physical volume status.
Industry:Software
Information that is created and managed by the metadata server, such as information about file sets, storage pools, volumes and policies. This information is stored in the system storage pool.
Industry:Software
Pertaining to data that is maintained across session boundaries, usually in nonvolatile storage such as a database system or a directory.
Industry:Software
In the System Modification Program/Extended (SMP/E), a collection of VSAM records describing the target system macros, modules, assemblies, load modules, source modules, and libraries copied from distribution libraries (DLIBs) during system generation, and the system modifications (SYSMODs) applied to the target system.
Industry:Software
Information that is encrypted with a private key and is appended to a message or object to assure the recipient of the authenticity and integrity of the message or object. The digital signature proves that the message or object was signed by the entity that owns, or has access to, the private key or shared-secret symmetric key.
Industry:Software
Pertaining to data that is organised on computer systems using a hierarchy of containers, often called folders (directories) and files. In this scheme, folders can contain other folders and files. The successive containment of folders within folders creates the levels of organization, which is the hierarchy.
Industry:Software
In the Systems Application Architecture (SAA) environment, a type of distributed application in which the user interface portion of the application runs on a programmable work station while some or all of the remaining code runs on one or more linked systems.
Industry:Software
Information that is expressed as a paired set of parameters. For example, if you want to express that the specific sport is football, this data can be expressed as key=sport and value=football.
Industry:Software
Pertaining to devices that are below a controller, and controllers that are below a communications line in a communications configuration. See also upline.
Industry:Software
In the Task Center, an action that is performed based on the completion status of a particular task. For example, "If Task A completes successfully, run Task B" and "If Task Z fails, disable the schedule of Task Y," both "run Task B" and "disable the schedule of Task Y" are task actions. See also step, task.
Industry:Software
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