- 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.
(1) To save information or objects on a system, usually to tape or diskette, for safekeeping.<br />(2) To copy information to another location to ensure against loss of data. See also restore.<br />(3) To create a copy of computer data that can be used to restore data that has been lost, mislaid, corrupted or erased.
Industry:Software
A character that in the output stream indicates that printing should start at the beginning of the same physical line in which the carriage-return character occurred.
Industry:Software
(1) To separate continuous-forms paper into individual sheets.<br />(2) In data communication, a sequence of data counted as one unit in accordance with some specific criterion or measure.
Industry:Software
A character that is created through the Character Generator Utility (CGU). CGU is an extension of the code page with special user-defined ideographic characters, symbols, or logos. User-defined characters may be present in some of the Japanese, Chinese, and Korean code pages.
Industry:Software
(1) To set the addresses, switches, or the contents of storage to zero, or to the starting value set by the manufacturer.<br />(2) In programming languages, to set the starting value of a data object.<br />(3) To prepare a system, device, or programme for operation; for example, to initialize a diskette.
Industry:Software
A character that is used to identify the beginning and the end of a character string.
Industry:Software
(1) To specify attributes at run time that change the attributes specified in the file description or in the program.<br />(2) In object-oriented programming, to define a new class behaviour by changing a method inherited from a parent class.<br />(3) The attributes specified at run time that change the attributes specified in the file description or in the program.
Industry:Software
A character that is used to specify a write, space, or skip operation. See also control character.
Industry:Software
(1) To start a programme or procedure, usually by specifying the entry conditions and transferring control to an entry point.<br />(2) A physical or logical connexion between one or more parties in a telephone call.<br />(3) A single runtime instance of a voice application.<br />(4) An instruction in COBOL, assembler language, C/370, or PL/I format that is used by an application programme to request DL/I services.<br />(5) In Sametime, an audible message sent using a traditional phone call (POTS, PSTN). It may be IP based, or a hybrid using both IP and traditional phone.<br />(6) An action state that invokes an operation on a classifier.
Industry:Software
