- 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) The control of information necessary to identify both physical and logical information systems and their relationship to one another.<br />(2) A supporting process whose purpose is to identify, define, and baseline items; control modifications and releases of these items; report and record status of the items and modification requests; ensure completeness, consistency and correctness of the items; and control storage, handling and delivery of the items. See also configuration.<br />(3) The process of planning for, identifying, controlling, and verifying the configuration items within a service, recording and reporting their status and, in support of change management, assessing the potential impact of changing those items.
Industry:Software
(1) The conversion of a network address that is assigned to a logical unit in one network into an address in an adjacent network. See also static network address translation.<br />(2) In a firewall, the conversion of secure Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to external registered addresses. This enables communications with external networks but masks the IP addresses that are used inside the firewall.
Industry:Software
(1) The current condition or state of a programme or device, for example, the status of a printer.<br />(2) The true or false condition of a situation.
Industry:Software
(1) The data object containing information that is associated with a connexion that is managed by DB2 ODBC. This information includes general status information, transaction status information, and diagnostic information. See also statement handle.<br />(2) The identifier or token by which a programme accesses the queue manager to which it is connected.<br />(3) A representation of a physical connection.
Industry:Software
(1) The date at which a file is no longer protected against automatic deletion by the system.<br />(2) The date after which a database file member should not be used.
Industry:Software
(1) The DB2 for z/OS system database that contains internal objects such as database descriptors and skeleton cursor tables.<br />(2) A type of file that contains the names and controlling information for objects or other directories.<br />(3) In a hierarchical file system, a grouping of related files and directories. A directory can contain zero or more entries, which refer to other directories and files.<br />(4) In OSI, a repository of information about objects. As defined in the X.500 directory standards, a directory is both a repository of information and the set of services provided to enable its users to access the information in the repository.<br />(5) A table of identifiers and references to the corresponding items of data.<br />(6) A collection of open systems that cooperate to hold a logical database of information about a set of objects in the real world.<br />(7) The part of a partitioned data set that describes the members in the data set.<br />(8) In UNIX, a file that maps the names of other directories and files to their locations.
Industry:Software
(1) The DB2 structure that describes an application's connection, traces its progress, processes resource functions, and delimits its accessibility to DB2 resources and services. Most DB2 functions execute under a thread structure.<br />(2) A stream of computer instructions that is in control of a process. In some operating systems, a thread is the smallest unit of operation in a process. Several threads can run concurrently, performing different jobs.<br />(3) The messages or documents that capture a written conversation about a topic. In Notes, a thread consists of an initial mail message or document and all its replies, contained in a view or displayed as a history in a document.
Industry:Software
(1) The defined space within disc units that is addressed by the system.<br />(2) A mechanical, electrical, or electronic piece of equipment for a special purpose.
Industry:Software
(1) The definition of a non-Document Interchange Architecture (DIA) document user type that identifies the document type number, name, and text associated with the document.<br />(2) The rules that specify the structure for a particular class of SGML or XML documents. The DTD defines the structure with elements, attributes, and notations, and it establishes constraints for how each element, attribute, and notation can be used within the particular class of documents.
Industry:Software
(1) The degree or extent to which the system can be restored to an operational condition after a system failure.<br />(2) The ability of a system to continue processing without loss of data when an unplanned interruption occurs.
Industry:Software
