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International Business Machines
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 recording of data about specific events on the system, such as errors.<br />(2) The recording (by CICS) of recovery information onto the system log, for use during emergency restart. A specific journaling function that records changes made to the system activity environment and database environment. These records are required for recovery and backout support by CICS (and the user) following an abnormal termination.
Industry:Software
(1) The reduction of data volume on the media when performing save operations.<br />(2) The process of eliminating gaps, empty fields, redundancies, and unnecessary data to shorten the length of records or blocks.
Industry:Software
(1) The regular assessment of an ongoing production system against defined thresholds to cheque that the system is operating correctly. See also monitoring domain.<br />(2) Running a hardware or software tool to measure the performance characteristics of a system.
Industry:Software
(1) The relationship between a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent and one or more SNMP managers. The community describes which SNMP manager requests the SNMP agent should honor.<br />(2) In the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), an administrative relationship between entities.<br />(3) A repository area where an assigned group of users can work together.
Industry:Software
(1) The release of the operating system on which a user intends to use an object being created, or intends to restore or use an existing object. See also source release.<br />(2) In upgrades, the version, release, and modification level of software that is to be installed.
Industry:Software
(1) The repetition of a set of computer instructions until a condition is satisfied.<br />(2) See loop.<br />(3) A milestone in the software development process for which the development team delivers a working version of the project for testing.
Industry:Software
(1) The request queue between a WebSphere Application Server plug-in for Web servers and a Web container in which the Web modules of an application reside. When a user at a Web browser requests an application, the request is passed to the Web server, then along the transport to the Web container.<br />(2) The process or protocol mechanism of transferring an XML message or document between parties as part of a meaningful, reliable exchange. The most common transports for web services are SOAP/HTTP, SOAP/HTTPs, and SOAP/JMS.
Industry:Software
(1) The requester of a service.<br />(2) Any person, device, or system that makes a telephone call. See also called party.<br />(3) A function that calls another function.
Industry:Software
(1) The reserved words or symbols used to express a relational condition or a relational expression.<br />(2) In COBOL, a reserved word, a relational character, a group of consecutive reserved words, or a group of consecutive reserved words and relational characters used to express a relational condition.<br />(3) Any of the set of operators that express an arithmetic condition that can be either true or false. The operators are: .GT., .GE., .LT., .LE., .EQ., and .NE.. They are defined as greater than, greater than or equal to, less than, less than or equal to, equal to, and not equal to, respectively.
Industry:Software
(1) The resource type attribute that determines how a resource participates in a transaction when the resource has been placed under commitment control. The possible access intents are update, read-only, and undetermined access intent.<br />(2) In RACF, a subsystem's intended use of a protected resource.<br />(3) In IMS, a subsystem's intended use of a database. This is in contrast to the sharing level of the database itself, which specifies how the database can be shared.<br />(4) Metadata that optimises and controls the runtime behaviour of an entity bean with respect to concurrency control, resource management, and database access strategies.
Industry:Software
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