- 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 word, phrase, or visual representation that denotes or depicts one object or idea but suggests a likeness or analogy with another object or idea.<br />(2) In WebSphere Commerce, a usage paradigm that customers can use to navigate product catalogs. Metaphors are provided as part of the Product Advisor component.
Industry:Software
(1) In COBOL, an access method in which the program-specified value of a key data item identifies the logical record that is obtained from, deleted from, or placed into a relative or indexed file.<br />(2) A process where individual records can be referred to in a nonsequential manner. See also access mode.<br />(3) Pertaining to a computer's process of reading data from and writing data to storage in a nonsequential manner.
Industry:Software
(1) In VisualAge RPG, information from a physical source file that may be extracted at build time. Any changes made to the original source must be recompiled to reflect the changes at run time.<br />(2) Single direction, one-to-one association between a root or child component and another root component. See also link.<br />(3) Logical names defined in the application deployment descriptor that are used to locate external resources for enterprise applications. At deployment, the references are bound to the physical location of the resource in the target operational environment.<br />(4) A named slot within a classifier that facilitates navigation to other classifiers.<br />(5) A pointer to another instance that defines the role and scope of an object in an association.
Industry:Software
(1) A work area that can be accessed by any transaction in the CICS system.<br />(2) An area within the CSA that can be used by application programs for user data that needs to be accessed by any task in the system. See also transaction work area.
Industry:Software
(1) In COBOL, one or more successive paragraphs or sections, within the Procedure Division, that direct the computer to perform some action or series of related actions.<br />(2) In the Integrated Language Environment (ILE) model, a set of self-contained high-level language (HLL) statements that performs a particular task and returns to the caller. Individual languages have different names for this concept of a procedure. In C, a procedure is called a function.<br />(3) A sequenced set of statements that may be used at one or more points in one or more computer programs, and that usually has one or more input parameters and yields one or more output parameters. (T)<br />(4) A routine that can be invoked using the SQL CALL statement to perform operations that can include both host language statements and SQL statements. See also external procedure, SQL procedure, routine.
Industry:Software
(1) A workload management mode for an MVS image in a sysplex using an MVS workload management service definition to automatically and dynamically balance its system resources according to the active service policy for the sysplex.<br />(2) A mode of processing in which the active service policy determines system resource management.
Industry:Software
(1) In COBOL, the most inclusive data item. The level number for a logical record is 01.<br />(2) A group of logically related fields. Portions of the same logical record may be located in different physical records, and several logical records or parts of several logical records may be located in one physical record.
Industry:Software
(1) In VSAM, a field, other than the primary key, of fixed length and position in a record. A set of alternate keys is used to build an alternate index that provides an alternative or secondary path for access to the data set. There can be any number of alternate keys in a record and they need not be unique.<br />(2) In z/OS Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM), one or more bytes within a data record used to identify the data record or control its use. Unlike the prime key, the alternate key can identify more than one data record. It is used to build an alternate index or to locate one or more base data records using an alternate index. See also key field, alternate-index record.
Industry:Software
(1) A workstation from which a user can log on to a domain and use network resources.<br />(2) In System i Access, a program that requests services from another program (a server). Each System i Access function has a server and a requester.<br />(3) The source of a request to access data at a remote server.
Industry:Software
(1) In COBOL, the record that is available in the record area associated with the file.<br />(2) The record pointed to by the current line pointer.
Industry:Software
