- 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 space between records on a storage medium.<br />(2) An area or space on a data medium (tape or diskette) to indicate the end of a physical record or block.
Industry:Software
(1) The specification of what instance variables implement an object's state, and what procedures implement its methods.<br />(2) A definition of how something is constructed or computed. For example, a class is an implementation of a type, a method is an implementation of an operation.
Industry:Software
(1) The specification that causes the floating-point value to be stored internally in the short format. See also double precision.<br />(2) The use of one computer word to represent a number, in accordance with the required precision.
Industry:Software
(1) The standard identifier for a character, regardless of its style. For example, all uppercase A's have the same character identifier.<br />(2) On a system, a 4-byte binary value. The value is a concatenation of the graphic character set global identifier followed by the code page global identifier. For example, the character identifier for German (feature 2929) is 00697 00273.
Industry:Software
(1) The state of a database in which all values of all foreign keys are valid. Maintaining referential integrity requires the enforcement of a referential constraint on all operations that change the data in a table where the referential constraints are defined.<br />(2) The condition that exists when all intended references from data in one column of a table to data in another column of the same or a different table are valid.<br />(3) In Extensible Markup Language (XML) tools, the condition that exists when all references to items in the XML schema editor or DTD editor are automatically cleaned up when the schema is detected or renamed.
Industry:Software
(1) The state of a monitor when a specified threshold is reached.<br />(2) See severity level.
Industry:Software
(1) The state of a resource or unit of recovery that has not yet completed the prepare phase of the commit process.<br />(2) A status of a unit of recovery that occurs when DB2 for z/OS fails before its unit of recovery completes phase 1 of the commit process. When DB2 for z/OS is restarted, it backs out the updates of any units of recovery that have inflight status.
Industry:Software
(1) The statements of the user interface manager (UIM) tag language. Tags describe the actions, format, and data of the panel. Tags are used to define the formatting of help information.<br />(2) One or more characters attached to a set of data (for example, a field or document element) that contain information about the set, including its identification.<br />(3) A text string attached to any instance of a word in a grammar. A tag can be used to distinguish two occurrences of the same word in a grammar, or to identify more than one word in a grammar as having the same meaning.<br />(4) In markup languages such as SGML, XML, and HTML, a token representing the start or end of an element.<br />(5) A type of structured field used for indexing in an AFP document. Tags associate an index attribute-value pair with a specific page or group of pages in a document.<br />(6) A mechanism used to identify certain attributes having some bearing on handling of character data. Some examples are character set identifier, code page identifier, language identifier, country identifier, and encoding scheme identifier.<br />(7) In UN/EDIFACT EDI Standards, the segment identifier. In export and import, a code that is assigned to each field in the database and used to identify the field in the export file. Such export files are known as tagged files.<br />(8) A word or phrase that users create and assign to an asset. Users create tags to develop search criteria that is meaningful to themselves.
Industry:Software
(1) The storage representation of a row or other data.<br />(2) A group of related data, words, or fields treated as a unit, such as one name, address, and telephone number.<br />(3) In programming languages, an aggregate that consists of data objects, possibly with different attributes, that usually have identifiers attached to them. In some programming languages, records are called structures.
Industry:Software
(1) The style element that gives a place a particular look. The portal provides several themes, similar to virtual wallpaper, from which you can choose when creating a place.<br />(2) A collective set of style sheets that supports the look and feel of the Rational Asset Manager Web client.
Industry:Software
