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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 write operation that can perform a cache operation without knowledge of the existing format on the medium. All write operations on fixed-block architecture (FBA) direct access storage devices (DASDs) are predictable. On count-key-data (CKD) DASD devices, a write operation is predictable if it performs a format write operation for the first data record on the track.
Industry:Software
An area where snap-in user exit points programmes can store information that other snap-ins can use. SPIN provides a place where information relating to a specific recipient can be stored and used by snap-ins in the same user exit point or in different user exit points. The information that is stored in snap-in provided information is completely user defined and interpreted data.
Industry:Software
An extension of SCD that is used for Fast Path.
Industry:Software
A write operation that replaces existing data on a direct access volume.
Industry:Software
An area, addressed by a FCT entry, that represents a physical VSAM or BDAM (DAM in CICS/VSE) data set that is being accessed through one or more CICS files. A DSNAME block (DSNB) is created, if it does not already exist, when a file is opened or, in CICS Transaction Server only, when a SET FILE DSNAME command is executed.
Industry:Software
An extension of the count-key-data (CKD) architecture.
Industry:Software
A write operations that must be applied in the correct order to maintain cross-volume consistency.
Industry:Software
An argument that is declared with default values in a C++ function prototype or declaration. If a call to the function omits this argument, a default value is used. An arguments with a default value must be the trailing argument in a function prototype argument list.
Industry:Software
An extension of the Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) to support objects distributed across a network.
Industry:Software
A z/OS control block that is used to communicate information about tasks within an address space that is connected to a subsystem. See also address space connection.
Industry:Software
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