- 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) The target of a request from an application requester. The database management system (DBMS) at the application server site services the request. See also application requester, DB2 Embedded Application Server.<br />(2) A server programme in a distributed network that provides the execution environment for an application program.<br />(3) Software that handles communication with the client requesting an asset and queries of the Content Manager.<br />(4) A host that is attached to the storage area network (SAN) and that runs applications.
Industry:Software
(1) The text file that records messages and errors from the licence server, and sometimes from licenced products.<br />(2) The file where the log of events is recorded.<br />(3) In WebSphere MQ on UNIX systems, and WebSphere MQ for Windows, a file in which all significant changes to the data controlled by a queue manager are recorded. If the primary log files become full, WebSphere MQ allocates secondary log files.
Industry:Software
(1) The time stamp that is located in the Notes database header and that indicates when a Notes database was first created or when the Fixup task last ran on it.<br />(2) An internal identifier of the database.
Industry:Software
(1) The trading mechanism used when a buyer solicits quotes for a specific set of goods or services. It can be used if a buyer does not find a particular item in the catalog, finds an item without a price, or wants to establish a long-term supply arrangement for a fixed-price item.<br />(2) A formal invitation to submit a price for goods and/or services as specified.
Industry:Software
(1) The transfer of an image to a sheet of paper. Multiple impressions can be printed on each side of a sheet. Printer speed is often measured in impressions per minute (ipm).<br />(2) In Web advertising, an ad's appearance on an accessed page. For example, if a Web page displays three ads, each ad would have one impression. Online publishers often sell ad space according to impressions. See also clickthrough rate.
Industry:Software
(1) The transformation of data to conceal its information content and to prevent its unauthorised use or undetected modification.<br />(2) Protecting information by transforming it (encrypting it) into an unreadable format, called ciphertext. Only those who possess a secret key can decipher (or decrypt) the message into plaintext.
Industry:Software
(1) The type of media that an object is stored on. It is not directly associated with a physical location; however, it is directly associated with the device manager. See also storage group, storage system.<br />(2) In WebSphere MQ for z/OS, the page set that is to hold the messages for a particular queue. The storage class is specified when the queue is defined.<br />(3) A named list of data-set storage attributes that identify performance goals and availability requirements. A storage class is defined by the storage administrator to select a device that can meet those goals and requirements.
Industry:Software
(1) The type of TCP/IP network, such as Class A, Class B, or Class C.<br />(2) An object class that is used for symbols that represent compound objects that might contain objects such as hosts and network devices. See also connector class.
Industry:Software
(1) The underlying part of a code page that defines: a) the coding space (the number and allowable value of code points in a code page); b) the rules for sharing the coding space between control and graphic characters; and c) the rules related to the specific options permitted in that scheme, such as the number of bits in a byte, single-byte, or double-byte.<br />(2) The set of rules that specifies the values for control characters and graphic characters. Examples of encoding schemes include ASCII, ISO/IEC 10646, Unicode and IBM's EBCDIC.<br />(3) A set of rules to represent character data.
Industry:Software
(1) The unique name of a database server. An application uses the location name to access a DB2 database server. See also LU name.<br />(2) In DFSMSrmm, a name given to a place for removable media that DFSMSrmm manages. A location name can be the name of a system-managed library, a storage location name, or the identifier for the shelf space outside a system-managed library or storage location.
Industry:Software
