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International Business Machines
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) In printing, the number of degrees an object is rotated relative to a reference; for example, the orientation of an overlay relative to the logical page origin, or the orientation of printing on a page relative to the page coordinates. Orientation usually applies to blocks of information, whereas character rotation applies to individual characters. See also character rotation.<br />(2) The orientation of a stream refers to the type of data which may pass through the stream. A stream without orientation is one on which no stream I/O has been performed.
Industry:Software
(1) Attribute values that are used to retrieve a stored item.<br />(2) In Information Integrator for Content, specific fields that an administrator defines for a search template that limit or further define choices available to the users.
Industry:Software
(1) In privacy management, the process of determining whether an access attempt to personally identifiable information (PII) complies with all governing privacy policies. See also ruling, conformance check, default ruling.<br />(2) A group of settings used to determine whether a computer or group of computers is compliant or not. There are two types of compliance checks: software and security.
Industry:Software
(1) A specific location on an activity diagram or state chart diagram where the workflow may branch based upon guard conditions. See also business value.<br />(2) A process element that routes an input to one of several alternative outgoing paths, depending on its condition. A decision is like a question that determines the exact set of activities during the execution of a process. Questions might include: What type of order? Or How will the order be shipped?<br />(3) The component of a policy expression that indicates the specific behaviour or property that the policy affects. Types of decisions include actions, goals, results, and configurations. See also decision name.
Industry:Software
(1) Character data whose value is assigned or changed while the programme is running.<br />(2) In the C language, a data object whose value can be changed while a programme is running and whose data type is a signed or unsigned character.
Industry:Software
(1) In programming languages, a combination of terms and operators that can be evaluated to a single value using the rules of precedence for the given language.<br />(2) An SQL or XQuery operand or a collection of SQL or XQuery operators and operands that yields a single value.
Industry:Software
(1) A specification in a statement that can influence the running of the statement.<br />(2) One or more characters added to a SWIFT field number to distinguish among different layouts for and meanings of the same field. For example, SWIFT field 60 can have an option F to identify a first opening balance, or M for an intermediate opening balance.<br />(3) See feature.
Industry:Software
(1) CICS control table retained to define non-VTAM terminal networks.<br />(2) A table describing the terminals and logical units within a CICS network.
Industry:Software
(1) In programming languages, a statement that is used to interrupt the continuous sequential processing of programming statements. Conditional statements such as IF, PAUSE, and STOP are examples of control statements.<br />(2) In RPG, an entry on a control specification.<br />(3) A statement placed into an input stream to identify special processing options for jobs
Industry:Software
(1) A specification of how stimuli are sent between instances to perform a specific task. The interaction is defined in the context of a collaboration. See also scenario.<br />(2) A definition for a source document entering WebSphere Partner Gateway that explains what the target document leaving WebSphere Partner Gateway should be. It consists of the source document, target document, action, and a transformation map.
Industry:Software
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