- 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) An area on a direct access storage device used to store object programmes and routines.<br />(2) A file used to store object modules.
Industry:Software
(1) In data communication, an association established between entities for conveying information. <br />(2) A combination of two endpoints that the virtual private network (VPN) protects and a security policy. Such a connexion can exist between any combination of a host and a gateway.<br />(3) In Open Systems Interconnection architecture, an association established by a given layer between two or more entities of the next higher layer for the purpose of data transfer.<br />(4) A set of parameters used by HATS to connect to a host application, stored in an .hco file. <br />(5) A link between two process elements. connexions can be used to specify the chronological sequence of activities in a process.
Industry:Software
(1) On a magnetic disc or in an assembly of disks, the set of all tracks that can be accessed by all the magnetic heads of a comb in a given position, without repositioning the access mechanism.<br />(2) A unit of storage on a count-key-data (CKD) device with a fixed number of tracks.
Industry:Software
(1) An area that is allocated by the system when a programme or procedure is called. Within automatic storage, data is defined each time the programme or procedure is called. See also static storage.<br />(2) Storage that is allocated on entry to a routine or block and is freed when control is returned. See also dynamic storage.
Industry:Software
(1) In data communication, two users who have bilaterally agreed to communicate with each other, but not with other users. Each user can belong to more than one bilateral closed user group and to more than one closed user group by means of outgoing access.<br />(2) In X.25 communications, an optional facility that allows calls to be made only between two designated DTEs.
Industry:Software
(1) On the buy-side, a defined role in WebSphere Commerce that makes purchases from the seller's Web site on behalf of a customer account. Typically, purchases are made under one or more agreements negotiated with the Seller.<br />(2) On the sell-side, a defined role in WebSphere Commerce that handles negotiations and ordering, keeps track of inventory, makes purchase order decisions, tracks reasons for returns, and tracks expected inventory records and receipts.
Industry:Software
(1) An area within the PSF functional subsystem (FSS) that drives and manages a single printer.<br />(2) An application that uses the support facilities of the functional subsystem (FSS) to communicate with JES.
Industry:Software
(1) In data communications, a special character that can be included in a message to control communications over a data link. For example, the sending station and the receiving station use transmission control characters to exchange information; the receiving station uses transmission control characters to indicate errors in data it receives.<br />(2)
Industry:Software
(1) One of several types of the system object type *FILE kept in the system that contains descriptions of how input data is to be presented to a programme from internal storage and how output data is to be presented to internal storage from a program.<br />(2) In Lotus Notes, a file with the extension NSF that contains the data for an application. Its structure is composed of forms, fields, folders, views, and other presentation features, such as a navigator and a database icon.
Industry:Software
(1) An attribute of a number that describes the total number of binary or decimal digits, excluding the sign. The sign is considered positive if the value of a number is zero.<br />(2) A measure of the ability to distinguish between nearly equal values.
Industry:Software
