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International Business Machines
Industry: Computer
Number of terms: 98482
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Company Profile:
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) In an RSR environment, an IMS that runs at an active site, performs production work, and is monitored by the tracking IMS. See also tracker.<br />(2) In an XRF environment, an IMS that performs production work and is monitored by the alternate IMS. See also alternate IMS.<br />(3) If FDBR is used, the IMS that performs production work. The active IMS is monitored by a separate Fast Database Recovery IMS control region.
Industry:Software
(1) In Cryptographic Support, the equivalent to the Data Encryption Standard.<br />(2) In computer security, a 64-bit block cipher that uses a 64-bit key, of which 56 bits are used to control the cryptographic process and 8 bits are used for parity checking to ensure that the key is transmitted properly.
Industry:Software
(1) In data communications, the remote application program or the remote computer.<br />(2) In distributed processing, any one of the separate communicating parts of an application. In CICS Transaction Server intercommunication, a transaction communicating with a remote transaction or system. A CICS program using the SAA communications interface requires a local PARTNER resource definition for its remote partner. An EXEC CICS INQUIRE
Industry:Software
(1) In HTTP, a parameter on the METHOD attribute of the FORM tag that specifies that a browser will send form data to a server in an HTTP transaction separate from that of the associated URL.<br />(2) A series of internal diagnostic tests activated each time the system power is turned on.
Industry:Software
(1) A standard for the definition of information models and the subsequent mapping of these models to CORBA interfaces.<br />(2) An abstract language and a framework for specifying, constructing, and managing technology neutral metamodels. Examples include the metamodels for UML, CWM, and the MOF itself, as well as those in various OMG specifications in progress.
Industry:Software
(1) A storage area allocated from CICS-key storage below the 16MB line. The size of the CDSA is controlled by the CDSASZE system initialization parameter.<br />(2) In CICS/VSE, the CICS DSA is preallocated at system initialization, and is the area of storage left within the CICS partition after the CICS nucleus has been loaded. The size of the partition is determined by the EXEC DFHSIP SIZE parameter.
Industry:Software
(1) A string of bit combinations that is used to escape from normal data, such as text code points, into control information.<br />(2) A character that is preceded by a (backslash) and is interpreted to have a special meaning to the operating system.<br />(3) A sequence of characters that contains the symbol followed by one of the characters: a ,b ,f ,n ,r ,t ,v ,' , ,x , , or by one or more octal or hexadecimal digits.
Industry:Software
(1) A unique address that is used to identify content on the Web, such as a page of text, a video or sound clip, a still or animated image, or a program. The most common form of URI is the Web page address, which is a particular form or subset of URI called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). A URI typically describes how to access the resource, the computer that contains the resource, and the name of the resource (a file name) on the computer. See also Uniform Resource Name.<br />(2) A compact string of characters for identifying an abstract or physical resource.
Industry:Software
(1) A unique identifier for a document.<br />(2) A value that uniquely identifies a row that contains an XML column. This value is stored with the row and never changes.
Industry:Software
(1) A unique identifier that is assigned when a customer accesses WebSphere Commerce.<br />(2) In WebSphere MQ for z/OS, the CICS-unique identifier that defines the communication link to be used by a message channel agent when moving messages from a transmission queue to a link.
Industry:Software