- 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) Pertaining to a system activity that starts automatically, usually based on the start or end of some other activity.<br />(2) An OSI Communications Subsystem function that starts an X.25 line automatically when the line set that it belongs to is started.
Industry:Software
(1) An identification record for a tape or disk file.<br />(2) One or more characters used to identify a statement or an item of data in a computer program.<br />(3) In DB2 for i5/OS SQL, text that is attached to columns, tables, and packages.<br />(4) The explanatory text next to a control on the screen.<br />(5) An instance of a label type object, which provides a user-defined name for a version. See also object.<br />(6) Text that a user enters to identify a revision.<br />(7) A node in a portal that cannot contain any content, but can contain other nodes. Labels are used primarily to group nodes in the navigation tree.<br />(8) An identifier within or attached to a set of data elements.
Industry:Software
(1) In IMS or VSAM, any index used to provide a path for access to a data set other than that provided by the primary keys. See also alternate index.<br />(2) A nonpartitioning index on a partitioned table. See also nonpartitioned index.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to a system, device, file, or facility that can be used in the event of a malfunction or loss of data.<br />(2) A tape, diskette, or save file containing saved objects.<br />(3) A copy of a data set or object to be used in case of accidental loss.<br />(4) The process of copying a file, directory, file system, or other data onto a tape, disk, or other media as insurance against data loss or corruption.<br />(5) A copy of a database or table space that can be stored on a different medium and used to restore the database or table space in the event of failure or damage to the original.<br />(6) The process of making a copy of a data file that can be used if the original file is destroyed.
Industry:Software
An interface that is used to create, deploy, and otherwise manage policies.
Industry:Software
(1) An identifier for a mutual exclusion (mutex).<br />(2) A means of coordinating access to a shared resource so that it cannot be used by more than one thread or process at a time. Mutex is short for mutually exclusive.
Industry:Software
(1) In IMS Version 9 and earlier versions, a name that represents a defined group of IMS resources (PSBs, transaction names, and logical terminal names).<br />(2) In DBCTL, the name of an application group. An application group is a set of PSBs that can be accessed by one particular CICS system or BMP as a single entity.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to a system's ability to increase its capacity to distribute information or data as demand heightens.<br />(2) Pertaining to the capability of a system to adapt readily to a greater or lesser intensity of use, volume, or demand. For example, a scalable system can efficiently adapt to work with larger or smaller networks performing tasks of varying complexity.
Industry:Software
(1) An identifier for a node in a network.<br />(2) In SNA networking, an address that consists of subarea and element fields and identifies a link, link station, or network addressable unit.
Industry:Software
(1) In Information Integrator for Content, a sequence of work steps, and the rules governing those steps, through which a work packet, document, or folder travels while it is being processed. For example, claims approval would describe the process that an individual insurance claim must follow for approval. See also document, work packet, work step.<br />(2) The sequence of activities performed in accordance with the business processes of an enterprise.<br />(3) A sequential series of steps that the system performs to accomplish a particular deployment task.
Industry:Software
