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International Business Machines
Industry: Computer
Number of terms: 98482
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Company Profile:
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 international industry consortium set up to develop common protocols to promote evolution and interoperability of the World Wide Web.
Industry:Software
An international set of electronic data interchange (EDI) standards published by the United Nations that is built upon X12 and TDI (Trade Data Interchange) standards.
Industry:Software
An international standards body and trade association founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers.
Industry:Software
An Internet application protocol for transferring mail among users of the Internet.
Industry:Software
(1) In OSI, the unsolicited notification of a significant occurrence by an agent to a manager .<br />(2) The unsolicited report that an event has occurred. In an Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) context, when a managed object emits a notification, the agent uses one or more event forwarding discriminators (EFDs) to find the destinations to which the report is sent.
Industry:Software
The angle of slant of a character cell that is not perpendicular to a baseline.
Industry:Software
(1) Any operation that allows traffic priorities to be designated. Through quality of service, different traffic throughout a network can be classified and administered.<br />(2) In OSI, a value that specifies certain performance characteristics of a service, session, or link. In OSI Communications Subsystem, quality of service is provided at the network layer.<br />(3) For an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) virtual channel or a Networking BroadBand Services (NBBS) network connection, a set of communication characteristics such as end-to-end delay, jitter, and packet loss ratio.<br />(4) A set of communication characteristics required by an application. QoS defines a specific transmission priority, level of route reliability, and security level.<br />(5) A measure of system performance and system availability.
Industry:Software
(1) In PC operating systems, a file with a file name extension of .CMD that functions like a batch file in DOS.<br />(2) In RJE, a remote job input stream that can contain host system commands and job control language (JCL), data, and RJE control statements (READFILE or EOF). See also data file.
Industry:Software
(1) Any point or location, such as a program, node, station, printer, or a particular terminal, to which information is to be sent.<br />(2) In IMS TM, an application program, a logical terminal, or an operator command that is associated with the control region.<br />(3) A queue of data used with the CICS transient data facility.<br />(4) An exit point that is used to deliver documents to a back-end system or a trading partner.
Industry:Software
(1) In performance profiling, a class that is normally excluded in the filtering criteria, but which is directly invoked by the classes that are included as filters.<br />(2) A class used to model communication between the system's environments and its inner workings.
Industry:Software