- 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 the storage industry, a concept in which a pool of storage is created that contains several disk subsystems. Subsystems from various vendors can be used. The pool can be split into virtual disks (VDisks) that are visible to the host systems that use them.<br />(2) A technique that encapsulates the characteristics of resources from the way in which other systems interact with those resources.
Industry:Software
(1) A type of message that determines if a message with certain characteristics can be delivered to a specific recipient. This type of message is treated like a user message by the message transfer agent (MTA), except that it is never delivered to the recipient.<br />(2) A monitor that tests a transaction and then detects and reports any errors that were generated during that test.<br />(3) A reusable set of Java code fragments and supporting attributes for collecting detailed runtime information about objects, arguments, and exceptions. See also Probekit.
Industry:Software
(1) In AFP support, any of a class of printers that accepts composed pages, constructed of composed text and images, among other things. See also line printer.<br />(2) A device that prints one page at a time
Industry:Software
(1) In the C and C++ languages, a description that makes an external object or function available to a function or a block statement.<br />(2) A statement that establishes the names and characteristics of data objects and functions used in a program.<br />(3) In Java programming, a statement that establishes an identifier and associates attributes with it, without necessarily reserving its storage or providing the implementation. (Sun)
Industry:Software
(1) A virtual storage area that provides the control, scheduling, and work management mechanisms necessary to coordinate shared resources.<br />(2) The MVS main storage region that contains the IMS control program.
Industry:Software
(1) In COBOL, a conceptual entity consisting of the top margin, the page body, and the bottom margin.<br />(2) The defined presentation space on the physical form. All the text and images in the print data must fit within the boundaries of the logical page, which has specified characteristics, such as size, shape, orientation, and offset.<br />(3) In the IMS message format service, a user-defined group of related message segment and field definitions. See also physical page.
Industry:Software
An interaction that has been associated with specific sending and receiving partners, and also specifies the destinations and other routing information necessary for an exchange.
Industry:Software
An interactive form of a JES2 checkpoint reconfiguration that directs the reconfiguration process with replies to a series of WTOR messages.
Industry:Software
An interactive interface in z/OS that is used to define hardware configurations to the operating system and the channel subsystem.
Industry:Software
An interactive service within DB2 for z/OS that facilitates the execution of SQL statements, DB2 (operator) commands, and programmer commands and the invocation of utilities.
Industry:Software
