- 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.
(1) An element of the CICS address space. It generally contains the control blocks for storage and contents supervision. See also high private area.<br />(2) In MVS, one or more segments associated with each virtual storage region that contain job-related system control blocks.
Industry:Software
(1) In DCE Remote Procedure Call (RPC), a set of encoding rules used for transmitting data over a network and for converting application data to and from different local data representations. See also abstract syntax.<br />(2) In OSI, a set of rules for the representation of user information while it is in transit between presentation layer entities. The transfer syntax is usually derived from the abstract syntax by use of encoding rules.
Industry:Software
(1) One or more words that together form a unit that is to be searched for in the content of a document.<br />(2) An ordered set of one or more consecutive COBOL character strings that forms part of a clause or a Procedure Division statement.
Industry:Software
(1) An enrollable item made available through the offerings catalog. These include course offerings, curriculums, learning events, and certificates.<br />(2) A logical unit of software packaging and sharing that has a managed development and maintenance life cycle and customer visible attributes (offering features, product IDs, licenses, maintenance contracts, and so forth). An offering is a serviceable software asset that is orderable by an IBM customer. It can be a collection of common components, assemblies, and other offerings. See also common component, feature, assembly, serviceable software asset.<br />(3) A template used to describe one or more services, with guaranteed service levels, which forms the basis for service level agreements (SLAs).
Industry:Software
(1) In DCE Remote Procedure Call (RPC), an opaque data structure that is generated by the DCE Interface Definition Language (IDL) compiler from an interface definition. It contains identifying and descriptive information about an RPC interface.<br />(2) Internet Protocol (IP) information that is used to transfer data in a network. Examples of IP information include an address, network mask, line description, line type, current status, maximum transmission unit, and type of service.
Industry:Software
(1) One space.<br />(2) Referring to a character set that uses one space in a preset width for each character.
Industry:Software
(1) An entire device or feature attached to a processing unit, including required adapters.<br />(2) A file that is attached to an e-mail message or other electronic document.<br />(3) A port or a pair of ports, optionally including an associated optical bypass, that are managed as a functional unit. A dual attachment includes two ports: port A and port B. A single attachment consists of one port: port S.<br />(4) In WebSphere Commerce, a collection of one or more files that are associated to a catalogue or marketing asset. See also attachment asset, attachment target.
Industry:Software
(1) In DFSMShsm, a collection of related data sets and control information that has been pooled to meet a defined backup or recovery strategy.<br />(2) A collection of data objects that form a data type, so that the data can be referred to collectively or individually. Aggregate group is used in conjunction with the storage of direct access storage device (DASD) data, not within an object access method (OAM) environment.
Industry:Software
(1) Online information that accompanies a product and provides immediate information to assist the user in completing tasks. It can include help files, messages, screen text, images, or other reference information.<br />(2) The product interfaces and technical product information that help users complete their tasks. User assistance includes wizards, interface instructions, and contextual assistance topics, as well as information centres and books.
Industry:Software
(1) An entity in a configuration that satisfies an end-use function and can be uniquely identified at a given reference point.<br />(2) Any component of an information technology infrastructure that is under the control of configuration management.
Industry:Software
