- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 98482
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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) A symbol that is used to modify the interpretation of the character or characters that follow it. Examples of uses of escape characters in SQL are delimiting identifiers, delimiting character constants, and modifying the special meaning of the underscore (_) and percent (%) characters in the LIKE predicate.<br />(2) A character that suppresses or selects a special meaning for one or more characters that follow.<br />(3) The control character in a text-control sequence that indicates the beginning of a sequence and the end of any preceding text.
Industry:Software
(1) In a database, the successive vertical dependencies in a hierarchical structure.<br />(2) A set of one or more related attributes that work together as one logical step in a hierarchy. Attributes can function in one or more roles in a level.
Industry:Software
(1) In SNA, one or more chains of request units and their responses, representing a complete transaction, exchanged between two session partners.<br />(2) Either of the characters left bracket (() and right bracket ()).
Industry:Software
(1) A type of relational database schema that is composed of a set of tables comprising a single, central fact table surrounded by dimension tables. See also dimension table, star join.<br />(2) A type of relational database schema that is made up of a fact table and a set of dimension tables. In Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse, the fact table holds the values of the component's metrics, and the dimension tables hold the values of the attributes of a component or a metric.
Industry:Software
(1) In AFP, a collection of printing instructions, and sometimes data to be printed, that consists entirely of structured fields. A resource object is stored as a member (or file) of a library and can be called for by PSF when needed. The different resource objects are: coded font, font character set, code page, page segment, overlay, form definition, and page definition.<br />(2) The representation of an actual network resource, such as a service, file, and program.
Industry:Software
(1) In the C and C++ languages, the application of the unary operator * to a pointer to access the object to which the pointer points.<br />(2) A mechanism for connecting objects by storing, in one object, a reference to another object. See also dereference.
Industry:Software
(1) A synchronisation function that is used to allow multiple jobs or processes to serialise their access to shared data.<br />(2) An abstraction that enables two or more threads to cooperate in a mutual exclusion protocol providing safe access to shared resources.<br />(3) A flag used by a semaphore to protect shared resources. The mutex is locked and unlocked by threads in a program. See also mutex attribute object.
Industry:Software
(1) In a federated database system, a description of a data source.<br />(2) One or more WSDL files that describe a service. Service definitions are produced by the Definition, Deployment, Adaptor, Skeleton, and Proxy wizards.<br />(3) An explicit definition of all the workloads and processing capacity in a sysplex. A service definition includes service policies, workloads, service classes, resource groups, and classification rules.
Industry:Software
(1) In SNA, the combination of the transmission connection, protocol, devices, and programming joining network nodes.<br />(2) A part of Recommendation X.25 that defines the link protocol used to get data into and out of the network across the duplex line connecting the subscriber's equipment to the network.
Industry:Software
(1) A type of request that is created and passed to the request queue handler whenever a nucleus server requires a service that is not currently available.<br />(2) An element that is used to manage and track work requests.
Industry:Software
