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International Business Machines
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 LU-LU or SSCP-SSCP session whose path traverses more than one SNA network.
Industry:Software
An message for which no matching definition exists in the message model. For example, a message coded in XML is self-defining. See also predefined message, self-defining element.
Industry:Software
(1) A summary of the system activities, such as system and job information, device status, system operator messages, and a record of programme temporary fix (PTF) activity on the system. The history log is identified by the name QHST, and the system-recognized identifier for the object type is *MSGQ.<br />(2) A file that keeps a record of activities for a workflow.
Industry:Software
(1) In a compare or merge session, the result when two contributors have changes that cannot both be accepted.<br />(2) A result that occurs when two simultaneous edit submissions are processed for the same object and where the intended outcome of the edit is unclear.
Industry:Software
(1) In SNA, a record that contains control information for the data that follows.<br />(2) One or more headers, optionally present in the leading request units (RUs) of an RU chain, that allow one LU to (a) select a transaction programme or device at the session partner and control the way in which the end-user data it sends is handled at the destination, (b) change the destination or the characteristics of the data during the session, and (c) transmit between session partners status or user information about the destination (for example, a programme or device). Function management headers can be used with LU type 1, 4, and 6.2 protocols.
Industry:Software
(1) A type of merchandising association in which a suggested product is chosen as an addition to the currently displayed or selected product. See also cross-sell, merchandising association, up-sell.<br />(2) An IBM designation for a separately orderable part that has no type number, is for purchase only, and does not receive normal IBM maintenance.
Industry:Software
(1) In advanced program-to-program communications, the amount of processing that is started directly or indirectly by a programme on the source system. See also unit of recovery.<br />(2) A recoverable sequence of operations performed by an application between two points of consistency. A unit of work begins when a transaction starts or at a user-requested syncpoint. It ends either at a user-requested syncpoint or at the end of a transaction.<br />(3) For IMS DB, all of the input and output messages associated with a transaction. For IMS TM, a single IMS message. For CQS, a client-defined grouping of data objects.<br />(4) A recoverable sequence of operations within an application process. At any time, an application process is a single UOW, but the life of an application process can involve many UOWs as a result of commit or rollback operations. In a multisite update operation, a single UOW can include several units of recovery. See also multisite update, unit of recovery, remote unit of work, transaction.
Industry:Software
(1) In the Backup, Recovery, and Media Services licenced program, a named or otherwise identifiable set of controls used by Backup, Recovery, and Media Services to manage and control specific operations. A policy is an overriding value that is carried in tables for use as a default in processing backup, recovery, archive, and media management operations.<br />(2) In QoS, the combination of rules and services. The rules define the criteria for traffic treatment, network resource access, and use.<br />(3) A set of considerations that influence the behaviour of a managed resource or a user. See also policy expression.<br />(4) A list of file-placement and service-class rules that define characteristics and placement of files. Several policies can be defined within the configuration, but only one policy set is active at one time. See also file-placement rule, file-management policy, file-placement policy.<br />(5) A document that sets forth high-level statements of how changes, releases, or other processes are to be managed, organized, and performed.
Industry:Software
(1) A summary view of the status of multiple service level agreements (SLAs). Users can click on links in the displayed Web page to obtain more detailed information on the SLAs as necessary.<br />(2) A Web page that can contain one or more viewers that graphically represent business data.<br />(3) An interface that integrates data from a variety of sources and provides a unified display of relevant and in-context information.
Industry:Software
(1) In a CREATE TRIGGER statement, the specification of an insert, update, or delete operation on a specified table that activates the trigger. See also trigger activation, trigger activation time, triggered action, trigger granularity.<br />(2) A change operation that calls the trigger action to be run. The trigger event can be an insert, update, or delete operation in any high-level language and in SQL.<br />(3) An event, such as a message arriving on a queue, that causes a queue manager to create a trigger message on an initiation queue.
Industry:Software
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