- 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.
An interface between CICS and application programs that formats input and output display data and routes multiple-page output messages without regard for control characters used by various terminals.
Industry:Software
An interface between DB2 and TSO, IMS, CICS, or batch address spaces. An attachment facility allows application programs to access DB2.
Industry:Software
(1) In communication, a technique used by layered protocols by which a layer adds control information to the protocol data unit (PDU) from the layer it supports. In this respect, the layer encapsulates the data from the supported layer. In the Internet suite of protocols, for example, a packet would contain control information from the physical layer, followed by control information from the network layer, followed by the application protocol data. See also decapsulation.<br />(2) In object-oriented programming, the technique that is used to hide the inherent details of an object, function, or class from client programs.
Industry:Software
(1) In Web services programming, a data structure type that contains information about groups of Web services.The business service structure is specified when a service is registered.<br />(2) A representation of a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document to define existing Web services. A collection of business service definitions can include business service objects.
Industry:Software
(1) Alert information that is provided as text or is encoded using a method in which code points provide an index into short units of stored text. The use of generic alerts prevents the receiver from having to recognize and understand each unique problem for which an alert is sent. See also nongeneric alert.<br />(2) A Systems Network Architecture (SNA) Network Management Vector that enables a product to signal a problem to the network. CICSPlex SM uses generic alerts as part of its interface to NetView.
Industry:Software
(1) In communications, a data link command or response used to perform a basic test of the station-to-station link connection.<br />(2) A discipline in the software-engineering process whose purpose is to integrate and test the system.
Industry:Software
(1) In WebSphere Commerce Payments, a relationship between the merchant and the financial institution that processes transactions for that merchant. There can be multiple accounts for each payment cassette.<br />(2) An entity that contains a set of parameters that define the application-specific attributes of a user, which include the identity, user profile, and credentials.<br />(3) A logical grouping of configuration items that is used to control access. An account can represent a company in a data center that supports more than one company, a department, or other groupings.
Industry:Software
(1) All of the partitions which are defined in the partition descriptor block.<br />(2) In BMS, a group of partitions designed to share the same screen. CICS must load the whole partition set onto a terminal before it can communicate with any of the partitions.
Industry:Software
(1) In communications, a method of controlling the number of data bits sent on a communications line in a specified time.<br />(2) In binary synchronous communication, the use of clock pulses to control synchronization of data and control characters.
Industry:Software
(1) In WebSphere Commerce, an agreement representing the terms and conditions that apply to a transaction.<br />(2) The set of business policy assertions that have to be met by service provider at runtime based on the context and content.
Industry:Software
