- 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) Part of a language's runtime system or an add-on library that automatically determines the memory that a program no longer uses, and recycles it for other use. Garbage collection may be assisted by the compiler, the hardware, the operating system, or any combination of the three.<br />(2) A routine that searches memory to reclaim space from program segments or inactive data.
Industry:Software
(1) An entity other than the commit initiator that takes part in the commit process.<br />(2) A person who has the capability to participate.<br />(3) A member of a portal place who can visit and use the place. By default, all portal users are participants in public places. See also place designer, place manager.<br />(4) In identity management, an individual, a role, a group, or a JavaScript script that has the authority to respond to a request that is part of a workflow.
Industry:Software
(1) In DFU, a way to change from one display format to another after the user signals that the first display format was completed.<br />(2) In RPG, an operation code that reads input records identified by specified relative record numbers or keys.<br />(3) A group of logically linked records that are transferred over a communications line.<br />(4) A group of request units delimited by begin-chain and end-chain. Responses are always single-unit chains.<br />(5) The name of a channel framework connection that contains an endpoint definition.
Industry:Software
(1) Part of a product that is either included with the product or can be ordered separately.<br />(2) The visual content information that is stored in the image search server. Also, the visual traits that image search applications use to determine matches. The four QBIC features are average color, histogram color, positional color, and texture.<br />(3) A subset of capabilities of a solution. In Solution Install, a feature selects a set of installable units from within the root installable unit.<br />(4) A labeled subset of concrete, functional software characteristics (function, interface, property, event, and so forth) or nonfunctional software characteristics (scalability, portability, performance, and so forth) of a specific common component, assembly, or offering. See also common component, assembly, offering, capability.<br />(5) In Eclipse, a JAR file that is packaged in a form that the update manager accepts and uses to update the platform. Features have a manifest that provides basic information about the content of the feature, which can include plug-ins, fragments and other files.
Industry:Software
(1) An entity that can communicate securely with another entity. A principal is identified by its associated security context, which defines its access rights.<br />(2) An entity that can communicate securely with another entity. In Kerberos, principals are represented as entries in the Kerberos registry database and include users, servers, computers, and others.
Industry:Software
(1) In disk management, the 8-byte portion of the 520-byte disk sector used by the operating system for control and access information.<br />(2) The portion of a message that contains control information.<br />(3) System-defined control information that precedes user data.<br />(4) Text that is formatted to be in the top margin of printed pages in a document. See also footer.<br />(5) See include statement.
Industry:Software
(1) Passage or transformation through different stages over time. For example markets, brands and offerings have life cycles.<br />(2) One complete pass through the four phases phases of software development: inception, elaboration, construction and transition.
Industry:Software
(1) An entity that is used or produced by a software development process. Examples of artifacts are models, source files, scripts, and binary executable files.<br />(2) An archive file that contains an action descriptor, optionally a media descriptor, and the set of files that are required for the change management operations. See also action descriptor, media descriptor.<br />(3) The data that is available for analysis from the files collected for problem determination, from the results of probes that were requested, or from event streams of managed resources. See also installable unit.<br />(4) A UML model element that describes the implementation of components by representing physical implementation units, such as executable files, libraries, software components, documents, and databases.<br />(5) Any file, object, or other piece of data that is created or used during the execution of a process.
Industry:Software
(1) In disk storage, an addressable subdivision of a track used to record one block of a program or data.<br />(2) The smallest amount of information that can be written to or read from a disk or diskette during a single read or write operation.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to a clustered system that is reconfigured when node or daemon failures occur, so that workloads can be redistributed to the remaining nodes in the cluster. See also application tier.<br />(2) The ability of IT services to withstand all outages and continue providing processing capability according to some predefined service level. Covered outages include both planned events, such as maintenance and backups, and unplanned events, such as software failures, hardware failures, power failures, and disasters. See also high availability solution.
Industry:Software
