- 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 instruction in a programme or procedure.<br />(2) In programming languages, a language construct that represents a step in a sequence of actions or a set of declarations.
Industry:Software
(1) In Linux and UNIX operating systems, a user who has superuser authority and root privileges. A root user's user identifier (UID) is 0.<br />(2) A system user who operates without restrictions. A root user has the special rights and privileges needed to perform administrative tasks.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to the operation of a functional unit or device that is under the control of the system or of a host. See also offline.<br />(2) Pertaining to a user's access to a computer by way of a terminal.
Industry:Software
An international encoding scheme that has full character data integrity with Unicode. ISO/IEC 10646 assigns 16 bits for each character, which can be used to represent most of the written languages in the world. The ISO/IEC 10646 character set is supported by System i products with a fixed character set.
Industry:Software
An international industry consortium set up to develop common protocols to promote evolution and interoperability of the World Wide Web.
Industry:Software
An international set of electronic data interchange (EDI) standards published by the United Nations that is built upon X12 and TDI (Trade Data Interchange) standards.
Industry:Software
An international standards body and trade association founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers.
Industry:Software
An Internet application protocol for transferring mail among users of the Internet.
Industry:Software
(1) An integer value that signifies the relevance of a given part to the results of a query. A higher rank signifies a closer match.<br />(2) An attribute of a use case, or scenario that describes its impact on the architecture, or its importance for a release.<br />(3) See array.
Industry:Software
(1) In mainframe computing, a data-record format employing self-defining record formats in which each record is represented by up to three fields: a count field identifying the record and specifying its format, an optional key field that can be used to identify the data area contents, and an optional data field that typically contains the user data. See also data record.<br />(2) An ESA/390 architecture for a direct access storage device (DASD) logical device that specifies the format of and access mechanisms for the logical data units on the device. The logical data unit is a track that can contain one or more records, each consisting of a count field, an optional key field, and an optional data field. See also custom volume.
Industry:Software
