- 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.
An Internet protocol that provides unreliable, connectionless datagram service. It enables an application programme on one machine or process to send a datagram to an application programme on another machine or process.
Industry:Software
An Internet standard for defining scripts that pass information from a Web server to an application program, through an HTTP request, and vice versa.
Industry:Software
An Internet standard for identifying the type of object being transferred across the Internet.
Industry:Software
(1) An undesirable result caused by altering the values of nonlocal variables by a procedure or function.<br />(2) A change in the state of the execution environment.
Industry:Software
(1) In OSI, a unit of standardisation specifying a complete group of functions.<br />(2) One of the discrete hardware and software products that provide a terminal user with processing ability.
Industry:Software
An Internet standard that allows different forms of data including video, audio, or binary data to be attached to e-mail without requiring translation into ASCII text.
Industry:Software
An interpretive language that is used to write command lists that contain sequences of commands to be executed when the name of the command list is entered. Tivoli NetView for z/OS supports command lists that are written in two command list languages: REXX and its own unique language, the NetView command list language.
Industry:Software
An interprocess communication buffer used by the low-level application programming interface (LAPI) for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA).
Industry:Software
(1) An unsolicited event generated by an agent and forwarded to a manager. Traps inform the manager of changes that occur in the network.<br />(2) In the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), a message sent by a managed node (agent function) to a management station to report an exception condition.<br />(3) An unprogrammed, hardware-initiated, conditional jump to a specific address. A trap occurs as a result of an error or certain other conditions. A record is made of the location from which the jump occurred.<br />(4) A message that reports a problem or a significant event.<br />(5) A special statement used to catch signals within the z/OS shell.(OSF)<br />(6) In REXX, to recognise that a currently enabled condition occurred and to perform the CALL or SIGNAL instruction specified when the condition trap was enabled.
Industry:Software
(1) In OSI, an ASN.1 type defined by reference to one or more other ASN.1 types.<br />(2) A data type that is a named collection of attributes (standard data types or other structured types). A structured type allows for greater semantic control than a predefined type allows. See also method.
Industry:Software
