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International Business Machines
Industry: Computer
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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) In DFSMShsm, the process of automatically copying data sets from primary storage volumes or migration volumes to backup volumes.<br />(2) In the object access method (OAM), the process of automatically copying a primary copy of an object from a direct access storage device (DASD), optical, or tape volume to a backup volume contained in an object backup-storage group.
Industry:Software
(1) Part of a central processing complex (CPC) that operates as a CPC in its own right, with its own copy of the operating system.<br />(2) A set of hardware resources, formed by partitioning, that can support a single operating system.
Industry:Software
An interlanguage communication (ILC) application that includes two or more of the following programmes or routines: a C routine, a COBOL program, a Fortran program, a PL/I routine, and an Assembler program.
Industry:Software
An intermediary server that lets a client access a target server to which the client is not connected. A mobile user can access multiple servers through a single phone connection; a LAN client can connect to servers running network protocols different from its own.
Industry:Software
An intermediate node in a transaction programme network that uses the two-phase commit protocol.
Industry:Software
An intermediate result table that is the result of either an inner join or an outer join.
Industry:Software
(1) An entity on which an operation is performed.<br />(2) Information entered with a command name that defines the data on which a command processor operates and that controls the running of the command processor.<br />(3) An argument to a command that is generally used as an object supplying information to a utility necessary to complete its processing. Operands generally follow the options in a command line.
Industry:Software
(1) In DFSMSrmm, the date that a data set is written to tape.<br />(2) The date that a data set was read if it was created before DFSMSrmm was in use. The create date is updated each time a data set is replaced and not extended.<br />(3) The date that volumes and other resources are defined to DFSMSrmm or the date specified on the command as the create date.
Industry:Software
(1) Part of a language's runtime system or an add-on library that automatically determines the memory that a programme no longer uses, and recycles it for other use. Garbage collection may be assisted by the compiler, the hardware, the operating system, or any combination of the three.<br />(2) A routine that searches memory to reclaim space from programme segments or inactive data.
Industry:Software
(1) An entity other than the commit initiator that takes part in the commit process.<br />(2) A person who has the capability to participate.<br />(3) A member of a portal place who can visit and use the place. By default, all portal users are participants in public places. See also place designer, place manager.<br />(4) In identity management, an individual, a role, a group, or a JavaScript script that has the authority to respond to a request that is part of a workflow.
Industry:Software
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