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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.
A Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) linear data set that contains a source control data set (SCDS) that has been activated to control the storage management policy for the installation. The ACDS is shared by each system that is using the same SMS configuration to manage storage. See also communications data set, control data set, source control data set.
Industry:Software
An algorithm that scrambles the data so that it becomes unreadable to someone who intercepts it.
Industry:Software
An encryption key that is created at the beginning of the SSL handshake, which determines the key used when encrypting information over an SSL connection. The negotiated session key changes each time a new session is initiated.
Industry:Software
A virtual tape server (VTS) logical volume (LVOL) containing the list of LVOLs to export.
Industry:Software
An algorithm where the encryption key can be calculated from the decryption key and vice versa. In most symmetric algorithms, the encryption key and the decryption key are the same.
Industry:Software
An end point of a specific path through a message flow to which a client application subscribes, identified to the client by its subscription point.
Industry:Software
A virtual tape server (VTS) logical volume (LVOL) containing the list of LVOLs to import. This list can contain individual logical volumes or it can contain a list of stacked volumes whose LVOLs will be imported.
Industry:Software
An alias for a set of port numbers or worldwide names (WWNs). Zone aliases can be used to simplify the entry of port numbers and WWNs. For example, "host" could be used as an alias for a WWN of 110:00:00:60:69:00:00:8a.
Industry:Software
An engine's connexion point to a storage client network. A storage port is a member of a single fabric. See also engine.
Industry:Software
A virtualization technique in which the physical storage, in the form of a Redundant Array of Independent discs (RAID), is split into smaller chunks of storage known as extents. These extents are then concatenated, using various policies, to make virtual discs (VDisks). See also asymmetric virtualization.
Industry:Software
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