- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 98482
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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) An area that is allocated by the system when a program or procedure is called. Within automatic storage, data is defined each time the program or procedure is called. See also static storage.<br />(2) Storage that is allocated on entry to a routine or block and is freed when control is returned. See also dynamic storage.
Industry:Software
(1) In data communication, two users who have bilaterally agreed to communicate with each other, but not with other users. Each user can belong to more than one bilateral closed user group and to more than one closed user group by means of outgoing access.<br />(2) In X.25 communications, an optional facility that allows calls to be made only between two designated DTEs.
Industry:Software
(1) On the buy-side, a defined role in WebSphere Commerce that makes purchases from the seller's Web site on behalf of a customer account. Typically, purchases are made under one or more agreements negotiated with the Seller.<br />(2) On the sell-side, a defined role in WebSphere Commerce that handles negotiations and ordering, keeps track of inventory, makes purchase order decisions, tracks reasons for returns, and tracks expected inventory records and receipts.
Industry:Software
(1) An area within the PSF functional subsystem (FSS) that drives and manages a single printer.<br />(2) An application that uses the support facilities of the functional subsystem (FSS) to communicate with JES.
Industry:Software
(1) In data communications, a special character that can be included in a message to control communications over a data link. For example, the sending station and the receiving station use transmission control characters to exchange information; the receiving station uses transmission control characters to indicate errors in data it receives.<br />(2)
Industry:Software
(1) One of several types of the system object type *FILE kept in the system that contains descriptions of how input data is to be presented to a program from internal storage and how output data is to be presented to internal storage from a program.<br />(2) In Lotus Notes, a file with the extension NSF that contains the data for an application. Its structure is composed of forms, fields, folders, views, and other presentation features, such as a navigator and a database icon.
Industry:Software
(1) An attribute of a number that describes the total number of binary or decimal digits, excluding the sign. The sign is considered positive if the value of a number is zero.<br />(2) A measure of the ability to distinguish between nearly equal values.
Industry:Software
(1) In data communications, the way that the sending or control station selects the station to which it is sending data.<br />(2) A method of identifying storage locations.<br />(3) The assignment of addresses to the instructions of a program.
Industry:Software
(1) One of the characters that belong to the blank character class as defined via the LC_CTYPE category in the current locale. In the POSIX locale, a blank character is either a tab or a space character.<br />(2) A graphic representation of the space character.
Industry:Software
(1) An audible or visual signal at a device, such as a display station or printer, that is used to notify the user that a predefined condition exists.<br />(2) Any condition that DirectTalk considers worthy of documenting with an error message. Strictly speaking, the term alarm should include only red (immediate attention) and yellow (problem situation) conditions, but it is also used to refer to green (a red or yellow message has been cleared) and white (information) conditions.<br />(3) For Domino administrators, a document generated in the Statistics database indicating that a server statistic has exceeded a specified threshold. For example, an alarm can notify an administrator if disk space on server drive C drops below 10 percent.
Industry:Software
