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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 user profile that is a member of a group profile.<br />(2) The name of an entity that joins an XCF group and communicates with IMS using the OTMA protocol. A member can be either a server (IMS) or a client.
Industry:Software
(1) In binary floating-point format, the part of a number that contains the whole number and fraction.<br />(2) The significant digits of a floating-point number.
Industry:Software
(1) In the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), either the point at which an abstract service is obtained, or a connection between a directory user agent (DUA) and a directory system agent (DSA).<br />(2) A cluster node that is being used as the primary source for replicated objects and for initiating changes to the object.
Industry:Software
(1) A technique used by best-effort delivery protocols to inhibit endlessly looping packets. The packet is discarded if the TTL counter reaches 0.<br />(2) The time interval in seconds that an entry can exist in the cache before the name server discards it.
Industry:Software
(1) In a relational database, a database object that consists of a specific number of columns and is used to store an unordered set of rows. See also base table, temporary table, view.<br />(2) An orderly arrangement of data in rows and columns that can contain numbers, text, or a combination of both.<br />(3) In COBOL, a set of logically consecutive data items that are defined in the Data Division with the OCCURS clause.<br />(4) In RPG, a series of elements with like characteristics. A table can be searched for a uniquely identified element, but elements in a table cannot be accessed by their position relative to other elements.
Industry:Software
(1) In SQL replication, event publishing, and Q replication, to gather changes from a source database. These changes can come from the DB2 log or journal or from source transactions in a non-DB2 relational database.<br />(2) The process by which an acquirer receives payment from the customer's financial institution and remits the payment. A "capture" is the guarantee that the funds are available and that the transfer will take place.
Industry:Software
(1) A user who has various system control authorities above and beyond that of the ordinary user. In UNIX environments, the standard superuser is root.<br />(2) See root user.
Industry:Software
(1) In Business Graphics Utility and the GDDM function, one of the intersecting horizontal or vertical scales where data values are plotted on a chart.<br />(2) The direction of movement through an instance of the XQuery and XPath data model. The six supported axes are child, parent, self, attribute, descendant, and descendant-or-self.
Industry:Software
(1) In the EJB development environment, the specification of how an enterprise bean's container-managed persistent fields correspond to columns in a relational database table or other persistent storage.<br />(2) A named collection of objects, symbols, submaps, and their relationships, all of which represent the network topology.<br />(3) In BMS, a format established for a page or a portion of a page, or a set of screen format descriptions. A map relates program variables to the positions in which their values appear on a display device. A map contains other formatting information such as field attributes. A map describes constant fields and their position on the display, the format of input and output fields, the attributes of constant and variable fields, and the symbolic names of variable fields.<br />(4) An entity that contains the Java code to specify how to transform attributes from one or more source business objects to one or more destination business objects. A map either converts from an application-specific business object to a generic business object (outbound map) or from a generic business object to an application-specific business object (inbound map).<br />(5) A specialized task that transforms data from one structure to another.<br />(6) To correlate fields in a Java class to columns in a relational database table or other persistent storage.
Industry:Software
(1) A technology that compresses and decompresses data for the purpose of reducing the bandwidth required to send streaming data.<br />(2) Pertaining to adapters that compress and decompress video files.
Industry:Software
