- 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) An IMS in a multisystem environment that accepts transactions from the front-end system, calls application programs for transaction processing, and routes replies back to the front-end system for response to the terminal. A back-end system may also perform front-end processing. A back-end system can be another IMS connected by an MSC link or can be part of the same IMSplex as the front-end system. See also front-end system.<br />(2) The CICS or IMS system in which existing applications run. Equivalent to partner system. See also front-end system.
Industry:Software
(1) In Internet communications, a workstation, server, or router that contains a network management agent. In the Internet Protocol (IP), the managed node usually contains a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent.<br />(2) In a Tivoli environment, a computer system on which Tivoli Management Framework is installed.<br />(3) A node that is federated to a deployment manager and contains a node agent and can contain managed servers. See also node.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to data transmission between two locations without the use of any intermediate display station or computer.<br />(2) Pertaining to a style of messaging application in which the sending application knows the destination of the message.<br />(3) A fibre-channel topology that employs direct links between each pair of communicating entities. See also switched fabric.
Industry:Software
(1) An IMS in an MSC network in which all terminals are connected, messages are routed to the proper processing IMS, and all replies are routed to the terminals. A front-end system may also perform back-end processing. See also back-end system, pseudo-front-end system, transaction processing system.<br />(2) The CICS system in which the Front End Programming Interface (FEPI) runs to provide access to applications running on other systems. See also back-end system.
Industry:Software
(1) In Internet communications, the identifier for a logical connector between an application entity and the transport service.<br />(2) The part of a socket address that identifies a port within a host.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to events that are not synchronized in time or do not occur in regular or predictable time intervals. See also synchronous.<br />(2) In cross-site mirroring, pertaining to the mode of geographic mirroring in which the program issuing the update waits until the operation is complete on the production copy and received for processing on the target system.
Industry:Software
An interface tool of the AIX operating system for installing, maintaining, configuring, and diagnosing tasks.
Industry:Software
An interface used to invoke a program or function from another program.
Industry:Software
An interface with a well-known name that applications specify when using DB2 databases.
Industry:Software
An interface with which the user communicates with the system by completing one or more fields.
Industry:Software
