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International Business Machines
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.
Variation of a digital signal to represent information.
Industry:Software
The staging table for a dependent materialized query table of a given table.
Industry:Software
A discrete point in a workflow or document routing process through which an individual work item, document, or folder must pass. See also document routing process, workflow.
Industry:Software
A discrete unit of storage on disk, tape or other data recording medium that supports some form of identifier and parameter list, such as a volume label or input/output control.
Industry:Software
A disk device that stores data in blocks of fixed size. These blocks are addressed by block number relative to the beginning of the file. See also extended count key data device.
Industry:Software
A disk storage device for storing data in the format: count field normally followed by a key field followed by the actual data of a record. The count field contains, in addition to other information, the address of the record in the format: CCHHR (where CC is the two-digit cylinder number, HH is the two-digit head number, and R is the record number) and the length of the data. The key field contains the record's key (search argument).
Industry:Software
A disk that uses laser technology for data storage and retrieval.
Industry:Software
A diskette on which the control information for a particular computer system has been written but which may or may not contain any data.
Industry:Software
A diskette provided by IBM to registered service coordinators for resolving user-identified problems with previously installed software. This diskette includes program updates designed to resolve problems.
Industry:Software
A display device assigned by the operating system to function as the console if the console is not working. The system searches for an alternative console when contact with the system console fails.
Industry:Software