- 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) In the DCE Cell Directory Service (CDS), the first instance of a specific directory in the namespace. After copies of the directory have been made, a different replica can be designated as the master, but only one master replica of a directory can exist at a time. CDS can create, update, and delete object entries and soft links in a master replica.<br />(2) In ClearCase MultiSite, the replica at which a mastered object can be modified or instances of the object can be created.
Industry:Software
(1) A system that runs application programmes independently of another system. The exchange of data files or applications with another system is done manually, through portable media, such as diskette or tape.<br />(2) A DirectTalk system that is not part of a single system image (SSI). A stand-alone system is not connected to other DirectTalk systems, so it contains its own application and voice data.
Industry:Software
(1) In a generalisation relationship, the specialisation of another element, the parent.<br />(2) A node that is subordinate to another node in a tree structure. Only the root node is not a child.
Industry:Software
(1) In SNA, two or more concurrently active sessions between the same two logical units. Each session can have different session parameters.<br />(2) Two or more concurrently active sessions between the same two network addressable units using different pairs of network addresses or local-form session identifiers. Each session can have independent session parameters.<br />(3) A single intersystem link that can carry multiple independent sessions. Parallel sessions are supported by CICS intersystem communication (ISC).
Industry:Software
(1) A unit of data exchanged between peer systems.<br />(2) In OSI, a unit of data exchanged between peer entities.<br />(3) In MERVA Link. a structured sequence of implicit and explicit data elements: Implicit data elements contain other data elements, and explicit data elements cannot contain any other data elements.
Industry:Software
(1) In assembler language, a programmer-specified name within a control section that identifies an entry point and can be referred to by any control section.<br />(2) A unique name for an entry, which is the same as the data set name in a data definition (DD) statement that describes the object. See also entry.
Industry:Software
(1) In the DCE Distributed Time Service (DTS), a software component that synchronises the clock for its client system by requesting time values from servers, computing a new time from the values, and supplying the computed time to client applications.<br />(2) In the DCE Cell Directory Service (CDS), a software component that receives CDS requests from a client application, ascertains an appropriate CDS server to process the requests, and returns the results of the requests to the client application.
Industry:Software
(1) A table on a direct access volume that describes the location, size and other characteristics of each data set on the volume. Each entry is a data set control block (DSCB).<br />(2) An area on a disc or diskette that describes the location, size, and other characteristics of each file, library, and folder on the disc or diskette.
Industry:Software
(1) In a graphical representation of data as a tree, a node that has no parents but typically has children.<br />(2) The common ancestor of all nodes in a set of nodes. There is only one root node for each XML instance document.
Industry:Software
(1) In SNADS, a list of entries in a table that the system uses to route a message or electronic mail to a user on the system. Each entry is made up of a destination group name (such as a department or organization) and a destination element name (the user ID of each person in that department or organization).<br />(2) In a point-to-point profile, a collection of path information through which hosts or networks can communicate with other hosts and networks.
Industry:Software
