- 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 type of relational database schema that is composed of a set of tables comprising a single, central fact table surrounded by dimension tables. See also dimension table, star join.<br />(2) A type of relational database schema that is made up of a fact table and a set of dimension tables. In Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse, the fact table holds the values of the component's metrics, and the dimension tables hold the values of the attributes of a component or a metric.
Industry:Software
(1) In AFP, a collection of printing instructions, and sometimes data to be printed, that consists entirely of structured fields. A resource object is stored as a member (or file) of a library and can be called for by PSF when needed. The different resource objects are: coded font, font character set, code page, page segment, overlay, form definition, and page definition.<br />(2) The representation of an actual network resource, such as a service, file, and program.
Industry:Software
(1) In the C and C++ languages, the application of the unary operator * to a pointer to access the object to which the pointer points.<br />(2) A mechanism for connecting objects by storing, in one object, a reference to another object. See also dereference.
Industry:Software
(1) A visual presentation of data.<br />(2) To present data visually.<br />(3) To direct the output to the user's terminal. If the output is not directed to the terminal, the results are undefined.
Industry:Software
(1) In COBOL, a device-dependent concept defined by the action taken by a printer when a new page is requested.<br />(2) In MFS, all or part of a logical page that is defined to be entered (input) or displayed (output) at one time. See also logical page.<br />(3) In printing, a single surface (front or back) of a form.
Industry:Software
(1) In the Tivoli common agent services, the service provided by the agent manager to validate and process requests for X.509 certificates from common agents and management applications. It functions as a registration authority.<br />(2) The z/OS system component that enables a resource manager to register itself with the system and identify the exit routines it provides for resource recovery.
Industry:Software
(1) A type of request that is created and passed to the request queue handler whenever a nucleus server requires a service that is not currently available.<br />(2) An element that is used to manage and track work requests.
Industry:Software
(1) In an application program, a variable that is referred to by embedded SQL statements. Host variables are programming variables in the application program and are the primary mechanism for transmitting data between tables in the database and application program work areas.<br />(2) A program data area that provides value to or receives value from a column in an SQL table.
Industry:Software
(1) In the C and C++ languages, to apply the unary operator * to a pointer to access the object the pointer points to. See also indirection.<br />(2) In VisualAge RPG, to remove information specific to the System i platform from a control.
Industry:Software
(1) A VSAM data set that contains name and status information for DB2 for z/OS and relative-byte address-range specifications for all active and archive log data sets. It also contains passwords for the DB2 for z/OS directory and catalog and lists of conditional restart and checkpoint records.<br />(2) A VSAM data set that contains an inventory of all active and archived log data sets known to WebSphere MQ for z/OS, and a wrap-around inventory of all recent WebSphere MQ for z/OS activity. The BSDS is required to restart the WebSphere MQ for z/OS subsystem.
Industry:Software
