- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 98482
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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.
A process that is created to carry out a request or set of requests. The parent process, in turn, can create child processes to process requests for the parent.
Industry:Software
A physical space into which a device can be physically mounted and connected to power and data. For example, a power supply or a disk drive might be inserted into a bay.
Industry:Software
A particular occurrence or example of a business item. If there is a business item called Invoice, then an example of a business item instance would be "Invoice #1473.
Industry:Software
A process that is used to recover a database by applying transactions that were recorded in the database recovery log file. See also crash recovery, version recovery.
Industry:Software
A physical storage device that houses optical disk drives and optical cartridges, and contains a mechanism for moving optical disks between a cartridge storage area and optical disk drives. See also pseudo optical library.
Industry:Software
A process that isolates the providers from the main CIM server by running the providers in a separate process.
Industry:Software
A physical subunit of a storage cluster that provides the communication with the attached disk drive modules (DDMs).
Industry:Software
A particular user-defined function that is known to the database manager by its specific name. Many specific user-defined functions can have the same function name. When a user-defined function is defined to the database, every function is assigned a specific name that is unique within its schema. Either the user can provide this name, or a default name is used.
Industry:Software
A process that must be completed before another command is issued. See also background process.
Industry:Software
