- 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 unique name used to identify an entity such as a field, file, data structure, or label within an RPG program.<br />(2) A string composed of characters from the ISO 646 code set that is used in locales to represent a character.
Industry:Software
(1) In application or system software, to use monitoring functions to provide performance and other information to a management system.<br />(2) To include code in a program in order to monitor or enhance the operation of a system or component.
Industry:Software
(1) In the DCE Cell Directory Service (CDS), the first instance of a specific directory in the namespace. After copies of the directory have been made, a different replica can be designated as the master, but only one master replica of a directory can exist at a time. CDS can create, update, and delete object entries and soft links in a master replica.<br />(2) In ClearCase MultiSite, the replica at which a mastered object can be modified or instances of the object can be created.
Industry:Software
(1) A WebSphere business integration system component that contains business logic describing a distributed business process. Collaborations are used to coordinate and extend the business processes of disparate enterprise software products and to facilitate meaningful data exchange between them. Collaborations use business objects to exchange and manipulate data. See also business logic.<br />(2) A conceptual collection or grouping of model elements, classifiers, or primitive types that are unified in accomplishing some objective within the context of the collaboration.<br />(3) The ability to connect customers, employees, or business partners to the people and processes in a business or organization, in order to facilitate improved decision-making. Collaboration involves two or more individuals with complementary skills interacting together to resolve a business problem.
Industry:Software
(1) In COBOL, a reserved word that represents a numeric or character value or a string of repeated values. The word can be used instead of a literal to represent the value.<br />(2) In RPG, an implied literal that is specified in the calculation specifications without a length definition because the implied length and decimal positions are the same as those of the receiver field.
Industry:Software
(1) In Unified Modeling Language (UML), a dependency in which one element (the client) requires the presence of another element (the supplier) for its correct functioning or implementation.<br />(2) A concept of one component depending upon another component. For example, when installing components, the prerequisite and corequisite components are used by other components, which have a uses relationship with the prerequisite and corequisite components.
Industry:Software
(1) A unit of data exchanged between peer systems.<br />(2) In OSI, a unit of data exchanged between peer entities.<br />(3) In MERVA Link. a structured sequence of implicit and explicit data elements: Implicit data elements contain other data elements, and explicit data elements cannot contain any other data elements.
Industry:Software
(1) In assembler language, a programmer-specified name within a control section that identifies an entry point and can be referred to by any control section.<br />(2) A unique name for an entry, which is the same as the data set name in a data definition (DD) statement that describes the object. See also entry.
Industry:Software
(1) In the DCE Distributed Time Service (DTS), a software component that synchronizes the clock for its client system by requesting time values from servers, computing a new time from the values, and supplying the computed time to client applications.<br />(2) In the DCE Cell Directory Service (CDS), a software component that receives CDS requests from a client application, ascertains an appropriate CDS server to process the requests, and returns the results of the requests to the client application.
Industry:Software
(1) A WebSphere Voice Response system that is used to respond to or make 'live' calls. A production system can also be used to develop new applications. See also development system.<br />(2) A system on which application programs that are already developed and tested run on a regular basis.
Industry:Software
