- 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) In the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), a particular instance of the type of information indicated by an attribute type.<br />(2) The property of a defining attribute such as a specific colour (blue or yellow) or size (medium). See also defining attribute.<br />(3) Information assigned to a requirement attribute. Attribute values can be text or numbers. For example, the attribute priority can be assigned the values Low, Medium, and High. See also entry-type attribute, list-type attribute.
Industry:Software
(1) A unit within an organization, such as a company, that identifies a particular set of users.<br />(2) An Active Directory container object used within domains. An organisational unit is a logical container into which users, groups, computers, and other organisational units are placed. It can contain objects only from its parent domain. An organisational unit is the smallest scope to which a Group Policy object can be linked, or over which administrative authority can be delegated.<br />(3) A body whose data is to be kept separate from that of other, similar bodies. WebSphere BI for FN uses OUs to control access to resources, and to ensure data segregation. Typically, OUs are used to represent different financial institutions, or different departments within a financial institution.<br />(4) One of the types of subsidiary entities that can be added to an organization. Typically, organisational units are used to logically separate business units by function.
Industry:Software
(1) In Backup, Recovery, and Media Services, physical tape cartridges, tape reels, or removable storage devices available for use by the system. This media is grouped into media classes for management, tracking, and statistical analysis.<br />(2) Magnetic disks, magnetic tapes, compact discs (CDs), and digital video discs (DVDs).
Industry:Software
(1) In the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), a specialised entry in the DCE namespace that contains binding information to enable communication between different DCE services.<br />(2) A logical connexion created to establish a path from one server to another.<br />(3) An HTTP or HTTPS connexion between a front-end WebSEAL server and a back-end Web application server. WebSEAL uses a junction to provide protective services on behalf of the back-end server.<br />(4) A special directory entry that connects a name in a directory of one fileset to the root directory of another fileset.
Industry:Software
(1) A user of an online store.<br />(2) A person or organization, internal or external to the producing organization, who takes financial responsibility for the system. In a large system this may not be the end user. The customer is the ultimate recipient of the developed product and its artifacts. See also stakeholder.<br />(3) A group or organisation that is associated with one or more applications. A customer can be an external organisation that accesses a data centre or an internal department within a company.
Industry:Software
(1) In Backup, Recovery, and Media Services, the storage location where available media is stored awaiting reuse. Typically, this is the on-site tape inventory.<br />(2) In DFSMSrmm, the location to which DFSMSrmm normally returns a volume when the volume is no longer retained by vital records processing.
Industry:Software
(1) In the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), an unambiguous name that is used to identify a set of access points.<br />(2) In OSI, an address that uniquely identifies an application entity. The presentation address consists of one or more NSAP addresses, a TSAP selector, an SSAP selector, and a PSAP selector.
Industry:Software
(1) A user profile that is a member of a group profile.<br />(2) The name of an entity that joins an XCF group and communicates with IMS using the OTMA protocol. A member can be either a server (IMS) or a client.
Industry:Software
(1) In binary floating-point format, the part of a number that contains the whole number and fraction.<br />(2) The significant digits of a floating-point number.
Industry:Software
(1) In the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), either the point at which an abstract service is obtained, or a connexion between a directory user agent (DUA) and a directory system agent (DSA).<br />(2) A cluster node that is being used as the primary source for replicated objects and for initiating changes to the object.
Industry:Software
