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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.
An indicator for the current value for an item. See also counter.
Industry:Software
(1) To describe the interconnected arrangement of the devices, programs, communications, and optional features installed on a system.<br />(2) To describe setting up auxiliary storage pools and checksum protection.<br />(3) In storage, to define the logical and physical configuration of the I/O subsystem through the user interface that the storage facility provides for this function.
Industry:Software
A change that is not backed out in the event of a failure. Changes made by a logical unit of work (LUW) are committed when the sync point at the end of the LUW is complete.
Industry:Software
A part of the operating system that provides a set of menus and displays for end users to do commonly performed tasks, such as working with printer output, messages, and batch jobs.
Industry:Software
(1) To determine if any remote device on a communications line is ready to send data.<br />(2) In Managed System Services, to query devices to determine operational status and to collect system data.
Industry:Software
A channel designed to operate with a number of I/O devices simultaneously. Several I/O devices can transfer records at the same time by interleaving items of data.
Industry:Software
(1) To display multiple iterations of data in a single window.<br />(2) See demarshal.
Industry:Software
A channel exit programme that is called immediately after the initial data negotiation has completed on channel startup. Security exits normally work in pairs and can be called on both message channels and MQI channels. The primary purpose of the security exit is to enable the message channel agent (MCA) at each end of a channel to authenticate its partner.
Industry:Software
(1) To end a unit of work by releasing locks so that the database changes made by that unit of work can be perceived by other processes. This operation makes the data changes permanent. See also atomic, recoverable data set.<br />(2) To make changes permanent for a resource in order to establish a new consistent state.<br />(3) To move managed assets from a task group in a workspace to the production-ready data on the authoring server. See also authoring server, workspace, task group, production-ready data, workspace task group approver, quick publish.<br />(4) An operation that applies all the changes made during the current unit of recovery (UR) or unit of work. After the operation is complete, a new UR or unit of work begins. See also backout.
Industry:Software
A channel of voice data which has been passed through echo cancellation algorithms. The channel provides echo-cancelled voice data which can then be used by the engine in a recognition attempt.
Industry:Software
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