- 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) Any object that is maintained by a remote DB2 subsystem (that is, by a DB2 subsystem other than the local one). A remote view, for example, is a view that is maintained by a remote DB2 subsystem. See also local.<br />(2) Pertaining to a system, program, or device that is accessed through a communication line.
Industry:Software
(1) In OSI, the service by which an open system can access directory information. Directory service can be provided locally within an open system, or it can be obtained from another open system using the directory service protocols defined by ISO/CCITT. In OSI Communications Subsystem, directory service is used to obtain the presentation address and other attributes of application entities.<br />(2) A component that provides naming, object storage, and lookup capabilities to other components.
Industry:Software
(scope resolution) operator.<br />(3) The basic primitive structure of the XQuery language. Primary expressions include literals, variable references, context item expressions, constructors, and function calls. A primary expression can also be created by enclosing any expression in parentheses, which can help to control the precedence of operators.
Industry:Software
(1) In OSI, the technique of using a single network connexion by multiple Transport Layer connexions so that multiple associations can share the same line. Multiplexing is available only for transport classes 2 and 4.<br />(2) In data transmission, a function that permits two or more data sources to share a common transmission medium so that each data source has its own channel.
Industry:Software
An interprocess communications mechanism that allows a process to directly read data from, write data to, and share data with other processes without having the data manipulated by the operating system.
Industry:Software
An interprocess communications mechanism that contains one or more semaphores.
Industry:Software
An interprocess communications service that provides shared memory segments.
Industry:Software
An interruption caused by the execution of a supervisor call (SVC) instruction, causing control to be passed to the supervisor.
Industry:Software
An interruption that occurs as a result of an equipment malfunction or error.
Industry:Software
(1) In OSI, the unsolicited notification of a significant occurrence by an agent to a manager .<br />(2) The unsolicited report that an event has occurred. In an Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) context, when a managed object emits a notification, the agent uses one or more event forwarding discriminators (EFDs) to find the destinations to which the report is sent.
Industry:Software
