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International Business Machines
Industry: Computer
Number of terms: 98482
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Company Profile:
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 character string that designates a set of privileges and can be used to verify authority. An authorization ID can represent an object, an individual user, an organisational group, a function, or a database role.
Industry:Software
(1) To remove the call stack entry and transfer control back to the calling procedure or programme in the previous call stack entry.<br />(2) One or more products, their prices, and the quantity specified, that a customer has selected for a refund from the store in which the product was originally purchased.
Industry:Software
A character string used by MERVA to identify a field in a network buffer. For example, for SWIFT field 30, the field tag is :30:.
Industry:Software
(1) To replace repetitive bits in a file or folder with control bits so that the file or folder takes up less space when saved.<br />(2) To compress a database, in order to reclaim space freed by the deletion of documents and attachments.
Industry:Software
A character string used to specify the date and time.
Industry:Software
(1) To restore data that is changed by an SQL statement to the state at its last commit point. See also point of consistency, roll forward, backout.<br />(2) To remove changes that were made to database files under commitment control since the last commitment boundary. See also commitment boundary, commitment control.<br />(3) To return to a previous stable condition.
Industry:Software
A character that defines the end of a telephone data entry.
Industry:Software
(1) To retrieve data from a database.<br />(2) An SQL action that positions a cursor on the next row of its result table and assigns the values of that row to host variables.<br />(3) The dynamic load of a PL/I procedure.
Industry:Software
A character that deletes a line of characters entered after a prompt.
Industry:Software
(1) To review and examine the activities of a data processing system mainly to test the adequacy and effectiveness of procedures for data security and data accuracy.<br />(2) To cheque for logical inconsistencies between server information and the actual condition of the system. Tivoli Storage Manager can audit volumes, the database, libraries, and licenses. For example, when Tivoli Storage Manager audits a volume, it cheques for inconsistencies between the information about backed-up or archived files stored in the database and the actual data associated with each backup version or archive copy in the storage pools.<br />(3) To record information about database or instance activity by applications or individuals.<br />(4) A process of inspection, correction, and verification that is used to cheque the economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and equity of an activity or process and to confirm that an activity is being carried out according to a common standard or in accordance with a recognised best practice.<br />(5) A DFSMShsm process that detects discrepancies in data set information contained in the volume tables of content (VTOCs), the computing system catalog, the migration control data set (MCDS), the backup control data set (BCDS), and the offline control data set (OCDS).
Industry:Software
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