- 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) Data that is recognized only by the procedure or OPM program that defines it. Local data is deleted when the procedure returns control to the calling program or procedure. See also external data.<br />(2) In COBOL, the data described in a program excluding all external data items and external file connectors. Items described in the Linkage Section of a program are handled as internal data.
Industry:Software
(1) In REXX, that part of a compound symbol up to and including the first period. It contains just one period, which is the last character. It cannot start with a digit or a period. A reference to a stem can also be used to manipulate all variables sharing that stem.<br />(2) The root of an inflected or derived word form that is obtained by stripping off inflectional or derivational affixes, for example: 'polit' is the stem of 'political'. A stem does not have to be a valid word. See also lemma.
Industry:Software
(1) A storage-based disaster-recovery and workload-migration function that can copy data in real time to a remote location. See also extended remote copy, Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy.<br />(2) A copy service that enables host data on a particular source virtual disk (VDisk) to be copied to the target VDisk designated in the relationship.
Industry:Software
(1) Data that is stored in static storage. See also automatic data.<br />(2) Data that retains its last-used state across calls.
Industry:Software
(1) In REXX, the parts of a parsing template that allow a string to be split by literal pattern or positional pattern. Parentheses may be supplied to create a variable pattern.<br />(2) A sequence of characters used either with regular expression notation or for path name expansion, as a means of selecting various characters strings or path names, respectively. The syntaxes of the two patterns are similar, but not identical.<br />(3) A reusable description of the design and architecture, which is used to satisfy defined criteria.
Industry:Software
(1) A string of characters that uniquely identifies a user to a system. See also user identification.<br />(2) The name by which a user is seen by other users. This name is entered, along with a password, when the user logs onto the Sametime server.
Industry:Software
(1) Explanatory text in a program or file that is not translated by the compiler.<br />(2) An annotation attached to an element or a collection of elements. See also constraint.
Industry:Software
(1) In REXX, the process of calling a set of instructions that must return a result. Function calls can be included in an expression anywhere that a term would be valid.<br />(2) An expression that transfers the path of execution from the current function to a specified function (the called function). A function call contains the name of the function to which control is transferred and a parenthesized list of values
Industry:Software
(1) A string of characters that uniquely identifies a user to a system.<br />(2) In a privacy management environment, a user key that the PII owner is likely to know the value of. See also user key.
Industry:Software
(1) Facility of IMS Version 2.2 (or later) and of CICS Transaction Server, for allocating DL/I databases and CICS file control data sets, respectively. If no DD statement is provided for the database data sets contained in the database, allocation happens automatically when the database is scheduled.<br />(2) Assignment of system resources to a program when the program is executed rather than when it is loaded into main storage. See also step allocation.
Industry:Software
