- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 98482
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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) A unique address that is used to identify content on the Web, such as a page of text, a video or sound clip, a still or animated image, or a program. The most common form of URI is the Web page address, which is a particular form or subset of URI called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). A URI typically describes how to access the resource, the computer that contains the resource, and the name of the resource (a file name) on the computer. See also Uniform Resource Name.<br />(2) A compact string of characters for identifying an abstract or physical resource.
Industry:Software
(1) A unique identifier for a document.<br />(2) A value that uniquely identifies a row that contains an XML column. This value is stored with the row and never changes.
Industry:Software
(1) A unique identifier that is assigned when a customer accesses WebSphere Commerce.<br />(2) In WebSphere MQ for z/OS, the CICS-unique identifier that defines the communication link to be used by a message channel agent when moving messages from a transmission queue to a link.
Industry:Software
(1) An American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) unit that is part of the AT&T nonswitched digital data system.<br />(2) A device used to connect a digital phone line to a multiplexer, a channel bank, or directly to another device producing a digital signal. A CSU performs certain line-conditioning and equalisation functions, and responds to loopback commands sent from the central office (CO).
Industry:Software
(1) An ANSI-standard electronic interface that allows personal computers to communicate with peripheral hardware, such as disc drives, tape drives, CD-ROM drives, printers, and scanners faster and more flexibly than previous interfaces. See also iSCSI, fixed-block device, SCSI device.<br />(2) A standard hardware interface that enables a variety of peripheral devices to communicate with one another. See also target.
Industry:Software
(1) An association of banks that manages the EBA clearing system through ABE Clearing SAS. The EBA is connected to the S.W.I.F.T. network in a manner similar to other S.W.I.F.T. users. The EBA monitors the operations of the EBA Clearing Service (a netting payment system), in particular the positions of all the clearing banks, through a direct connexion to the clearing computer.<br />(2) The netting payment system maintained by the Euro Banking Association.
Industry:Software
(1) An attribute of a process that is used in determining various permissions, including file access permissions.This value is subject to change during the process lifetime.<br />(2) The current group ID, but not necessarily the user's own ID. For example, a user logged in under a particular group ID might be able to change to another group ID. The ID to which the user changes then becomes the effective group ID.
Industry:Software
(1) An authentication framework that allows single sign-on across a set of Web servers that fall within an Internet domain.<br />(2) A protocol that uses cryptography to support security in a distributed environment.
Industry:Software
(1) An editing facility that allows application programmes to deal with simple logical messages instead of device-dependent data, thus simplifying the application development process.<br />(2) A MERVA direct service that formats a message according to the medium to be used, and cheques it for formal correctness.
Industry:Software
(1) An environment that allows full-function databases and DEDBs to be accessed from one or more transaction management subsystems.<br />(2) An interface between CICS Transaction Server and IMS/ESA that allows access to IMS DL/I full-function databases and to data entry databases (DEDBs) from one or more CICS systems without the need for data sharing. It also provides release independence, virtual storage constraint relief, operational flexibility, and failure isolation.
Industry:Software
