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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.
(1) In System Manager, an object that contains the control information about an option. The object type is *PRODLOD. A product load is identified by the product identifier (PRDID), release (RLS), option (OPTION), and load identifier (LODID) parameters.<br />(2) The smallest logical collection of objects that can make a product option.
Industry:Software
(1) A variable that defines an aspect of the operating environment for a process. For example, environment variables can define the home directory, the command search path, the terminal in use, or the current time zone.<br />(2) A variable that is included in the current software environment and is therefore available to any called program that requests it.<br />(3) A variable that specifies how an operating system or another program runs, or the devices that the operating system recognizes.
Industry:Software
(1) In CICS Transaction Server, CICS statistics written to an SMF data set at the quiesce or termination of a CICS run, or at a user-specified time. See also interval statistics, unsolicited statistics.<br />(2) In CICS/VSE, CICS statistics written to the CSSL transient data destination at the quiesce or termination of a CICS run, or at a user-specified time. End-of-day statistics are reset by an end-of-day statistics collection.
Industry:Software
(1) In the original program model (OPM), a set of instructions in machine-readable form. The object program is produced by a compiler from a source program. In the Integrated Language Environment (ILE) model, an object program is the result of binding modules together.<br />(2) A fully compiled or assembled program that is ready to be loaded into the computer. An object program consists of object modules.
Industry:Software
An intelligent pattern-recognition system that consists of a camera and lamps mounted on the gripper assemblies, the vision system controller, and the vision monitor. The vision system scans the external labels on cartridges to provide positive cartridge identification.
Industry:Software
An intelligent token that is embedded with an integrated circuit chip that provides memory capacity and computational capabilities
Industry:Software
An interaction between people and business processes or services. See also inline task, stand-alone task.
Industry:Software
(1) A type of access control in which VSAM keeps control of the control interval (CI) containing a specific record until a REWRITE, UNLOCK, or DELETE command is issued for that record. The purpose of exclusive control is to protect against simultaneous update.<br />(2) A method for preventing multiple, write-add, basic direct access method (BDAM) requests from updating the same dummy record or writing over the same available space on a track. When specified by the user, the exclusive-control lock requests that the system prevent the data block that is about to be read from being modified by other requests; it is specified in a read macro and released in a write or read macro. When a write-add request is about to be processed, the system automatically obtains exclusive control of either the data set or the track.
Industry:Software
(1) In a Web site, a link to a Web address that is outside the current Web site.<br />(2) A symbolic link that contains the name of an object that is outside the hierarchical file system.
Industry:Software
(1) In System Manager, the interfaces that define guidelines, standards, services, and other interfaces for integrating systems management applications.<br />(2) A data category that is used to organize and select monitoring context instances for reporting and analysis. Examples of dimensions are time, accounts, products, and markets. See also member.<br />(3) In multidimensional data, a structural attribute of a cube that organizes data to enable in-depth business analysis.<br />(4) A data category, such as time, accounts, products, or markets, that represents the highest consolidation level in a multidimensional database outline.
Industry:Software