- 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 COBOL, a set of entries that includes all subordinate entries to the next equal- or higher-level number.<br />(2) The tree-like arrangement of segments in a database, beginning with the root segment and proceeding down to dependent segments.<br />(3) A defined relationship among a set of attributes that are grouped by levels in the dimension of a cube model.
Industry:Software
(1) A unit of data that, in certain context, is considered indivisible. An example is the data element "age of a person" with values consisting of all three-decimal digit combinations.<br />(2) The smallest unit of data that can be referred to.<br />(3) See monitor element.<br />(4) A unit of storage in a coupling facility list structure that makes up a data entry.<br />(5) In server jobs, a specification that describes the type of data in a column and how the data is converted.
Industry:Software
(1) In Backup, Recovery, and Media Services, a group of objects or folders that are grouped together for processing in a backup control group. Each list is assigned a unique list name.<br />(2) In the Operational Assistant function, a list of libraries or folders to be saved on a regular basis, such as daily or weekly.
Industry:Software
(1) In the DCE X/Open Directory Service (XDS), a set of Attribute Value Assertions (AVAs), each of which is true, concerning the distinguished values of a particular entry.<br />(2) The part of an object name that is an attribute of the object itself.<br />(3) The first component of the distinguished name (DN). For example, if the entry's DN is cn=John Doe,ou=Test,o=IBM,c=US, the RDN is cn=John Doe.
Industry:Software
(1) A word that is commonly used, such as "the," "an," or "and," that is ignored by a search application.<br />(2) A frequently occurring word that many natural language processing (NLP) applications identify as such, to improve processing.
Industry:Software
(1) In COBOL, a set of one or more programs that run as a set to solve a problem. A set starts with the first COBOL program in the call stack and includes all programs (COBOL) (non-COBOL) that are below it in the call stack.<br />(2) One or more object programs that are executed together.
Industry:Software
(1) In VisualAge RPG, a part that can notify target parts whenever the state of the source part changes. A source part can have multiple targets.<br />(2) A system, a program within a system, or a device that makes a request to a target.<br />(3) A resource, such as a host, that is being monitored by an event adapter.<br />(4) A port that places voice data on the SCBus. See also sink.<br />(5) The markup-language pertaining to files that define a HATS project or one of its resources. Also the name of a folder contained in each HATS project.<br />(6) In distributed data management (DDM), the platform that originates a request for remote data. See also Distributed FileManager, target.
Industry:Software
(1) A word that is defined by a programming language and that cannot be used as an identifier or changed by the user.<br />(2) A word that has been set aside for special use in the SQL standard.
Industry:Software
(1) In COBOL, an access method in which specific logical records can be obtained from or placed into a mass storage file in a nonsequential manner and obtained from a file in a sequential manner during the scope of the same OPEN statement.<br />(2) A process where records can be accessed sequentially or randomly, depending on the form of the input/output request. See also access mode.
Industry:Software
(1) In VisualAge RPG, a self-contained software object consisting of a set of external features that allow the part to interact with other parts. The parts on the VRPG palette can be used a templates to create controls.<br />(2) See object.
Industry:Software
