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International Business Machines
Industry: Computer
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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 an application program, a variable that is referred to by embedded SQL statements. Host variables are programming variables in the application programme and are the primary mechanism for transmitting data between tables in the database and application programme work areas.<br />(2) A programme data area that provides value to or receives value from a column in an SQL table.
Industry:Software
(1) In the C and C++ languages, to apply the unary operator * to a pointer to access the object the pointer points to. See also indirection.<br />(2) In VisualAge RPG, to remove information specific to the System i platform from a control.
Industry:Software
(1) A System i Navigator tool that gathers and displays real-time performance data for the system.<br />(2) In finance communications, a 4700 controller programme used to perform service, configuration, and debugging functions on that controller.<br />(3) See database system monitor.
Industry:Software
(1) In a federated system, an identifier that is used in a distributed request to refer to an object at a remote data source. The objects that nicknames identify are referred to as data source objects. Examples of data source objects are tables, views, synonyms, table-structured files, and search algorithms. See also data source object.<br />(2) In the OSI Communications Subsystem licenced program, a 1- to 8-character name that identifies an object or entity in an OSI network. Nicknames are provided by OSI Communications Subsystem to enable users to use simple names instead of the often long, multipart, sometimes binary-coded identifiers required by OSI protocols.<br />(3) See alias.
Industry:Software
(1) In SNA, the control information that precedes a request unit.<br />(2) In SNA, a 3-byte header that precedes a request unit. The request header specifies the type of request unit and contains control information associated with that request unit. See also response header.
Industry:Software
(1) A unique bit pattern that represents a character in a code page. See also code page.<br />(2) For SNA alerts, a 1-or 2-byte hexadecimal code that designates a particular piece of text to be displayed at the focal point.<br />(3) An identifier in an alert description that represents a short unit of text. The code point is replaced with the text by an alert display program.<br />(4) In QoS, pertaining to a specific value in the Differentiated Services field of a data packet that signals to a network the behaviour that is assigned to that packet.
Industry:Software
(1) In an externally described display or printer file, an unnamed field that contains actual data that is passed to the display or printer but is unknown to the programme passing it.<br />(2) A field defined by a display format to contain a value that does not change.
Industry:Software
W OSI, podstawowy usługi wydane przez usługodawcę do zakończenia procedur związanych z usługą potwierdzone.
Industry:Software
W REXX, który pozwala odpalać programy napisane w innych językach, aby uzyskać dostęp do zmiennych używany przez lub znajdujących się w aktywny program REXX interfejs programu lub aplikacji.
Industry:Software
(1) In the C language, the range within a programme in which a declaration is known.<br />(2) The extent to which the semantic effects of language statements reach. The scope may be to the job or to the activation group.<br />(3) The level to which a commitment control definition applies.<br />(4) Information that is used to describe whether the scheduling policy indicates that threads compete directly with other threads within the process or within the system.<br />(5) In Web services, a property that identifies the lifetime of the object serving the invocation request.<br />(6) A named part of the CICSPlex SM environment that qualifies the context of a CICSPlex SM request. The scope can be the CICSplex itself, a CICS system, a CICS system group, or any set of CICS resources that are defined as a logical scope in a CICSPlex SM resource description. See also context.<br />(7) A specification of the boundary within which system resources can be used.<br />(8) The effective range of the enablement of a condition, the establishment of a user-generated routine to handle a condition, or both. Scope can be both statically and dynamically defined. See also namespace scope.<br />(9) In identity management, the set of entities that a policy or an access control item (ACI) can affect.
Industry:Software
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