- 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) User assistance that is an alternate path usually through complex and infrequently performed tasks. Presented sequentially, the panels of the wizard prompt the user for responses, and then take that data and perform the task. Wizards complete a single task and are usually self-contained.<br />(2) An active form of help that guides users through each step of a particular task.
Industry:Software
A character used to select a choice in a selection list or a selection field.
Industry:Software
(1) Variation in the amplitude and frequency of the write signal.<br />(2) Pertains to the number of bytes of storage that can be stored on the recording media. Synonymous with double-density recording.
Industry:Software
A character whose occurrence in a particular context initiates, modifies, or stops a control function. See also carriage control character.
Industry:Software
(1) Verification of the contents of a field.<br />(2) Verification that object names used in DB2 for i5/OS SQL statements exist on a system.
Industry:Software
A character whose range of values can represent distinct codes for all members of the largest extended character set specified among the supporting locales. See also narrow character.
Industry:Software
(1) Within a string, the ordinal position of one element of a string relative to another.<br />(2) Within an attribute, the ordinal position of one value relative to another.
Industry:Software
A character, graphic, or binary string whose length is specified and cannot be changed. See also varying-length string.
Industry:Software
A "high-level" event, typically formed from the combination of two or more atomic events. However, composite events can be "empty" - that is, they may contain no sub-events. See also atomic event, user-defined event.
Industry:Software
A character, such as an asterisk (*), that follows the EDI segment identifier and separates each EDI data element in an EDI segment. See also segment ID separator.
Industry:Software
