- 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) A unit of information to be processed.<br />(2) In COBOL, a character or a set of consecutive characters (excluding literals in either case) defined as a unit of data by the COBOL program.<br />(3) In EGL, an area of memory that is not in a structure and is based either on a data item part or on an explicit primitive-type description such as CHAR(3).<br />(4) In the MQAI, an item contained within a data bag. This can be an integer item or a character-string item, and a user item or a system item.
Industry:Software
(1) In Backup, Recovery, and Media Services, a multivolume tape group created as a result of a backup operation or archive operation. Media sets are managed as a group to provide consistent management of single and multivolume output and to provide integrity in cases where an individual volume in a media set is expired in advance of the remaining volumes.<br />(2) In software distribution and installation, a multivolume CD-ROM, CD-R, or tape group created for the purpose of distributing a selection of software to customers for installation on to the system. Some media sets, for example, a system software release upgrade media set, may consist of a collection of smaller media sets, each containing a specialized selection of the Licensed Internal Code, licensed programs, the operating system, and program temporary fixes needed to operate the system and use it to do business.
Industry:Software
(1) In the DCE X/Open Directory Service (XDS), an object management (OM) object created in the workspace using the OM functions.<br />(2) In DCE X/Open Object Management (XOM), an object that is represented in an unspecified fashion.
Industry:Software
(1) A table that holds rows that violate referential constraints or check constraints that the CHECK DATA utility finds.<br />(2) A user-created table that reflects the definition of the table being loaded.
Industry:Software
(1) In a Microsoft Windows operating system, a database that contains system configuration information regarding the user, the hardware, and the programs and applications that are installed. Windows operating systems refer to the registry during operation.<br />(2) A repository that contains access and configuration information for users, systems, and software.<br />(3) A database where services are enrolled along with a pointer to each service.
Industry:Software
(1) In software distribution, a compressed text file that describes the actions to perform on the target system to which it is distributed. See also stanza.<br />(2) A file that defines a collection of artifacts and the actions to take with those artifacts on the target system to which it is distributed.
Industry:Software
(1) A unit of work in a distributed transaction processing environment in which multiple resource managers are required.<br />(2) A recoverable unit of work performed by one or more resource managers in a distributed transaction environment and coordinated by an external transaction manager.
Industry:Software
(1) In Backup, Recovery, and Media Services, a place where media and containers can be stored awaiting expiration or movement to another location such as off-site storage, vaults, or long-term (permanent) retention. Backup, Recovery, and Media Services has two predefined locations that can be overridden by the user: 1) *HOME, the system keyword for the on-site library (or home location); and 2) VAULT, a default storage location that refers to the default off-site storage location.<br />(2) Data elements within a storage system that can be mapped to (a) the schema of the storage system, such as a column in a database table, (b) an aggregation of data, such as a table, or (c) a way of accessing the data, such as a transaction identifier. See also storage system, user key.<br />(3) A location physically separate from the removable media library where volumes are stored for disaster recovery, backup, and vital records management. See also inventory management.
Industry:Software
(1) In the DCE X/Open Directory Service, a defined data structure that is used to represent an OM attribute type and a single value.<br />(2) See screen recognition criteria.<br />(3) A PL/I control block that holds information such as string lengths, array subscript bounds, and area sizes, and is passed from one PL/I routine to another during run time.<br />(4) A small, unsigned integer that a UNIX system uses to identify an object supported by the kernel. Descriptors can represent files, pipes, sockets, and other I/O streams.<br />(5) An XML file that describes the content of a component or resource. See also installable unit deployment descriptor, media descriptor.<br />(6) A skeleton from which an IMS control block is dynamically built. A user descriptor can provide user options and queue names.
Industry:Software
(1) A table that is automatically created in the DB2 database catalog when a database is created. Catalog tables contain information about a database and its objects. See also catalog view.<br />(2) Any table in the DB2 catalog.
Industry:Software
