- 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) In security management, a service and list of attributes that identifies the target for a provisioning policy.<br />(2) A data structure that contains externalized security policy information. Entitlements contain policy data or capabilities that are formatted in a way that is understandable to a specific application.
Industry:Software
(1) A subject-oriented collection of data that is used to support strategic decision making. The warehouse is the central point of data integration for business intelligence. It is the source of data for data marts within an enterprise and delivers a common view of enterprise data.<br />(2) A central repository for all or significant parts of the data that an organization's business systems collect.
Industry:Software
(1) Hardware and software used to answer incoming calls by playing one or more prerecorded messages.<br />(2) A telephony device that uses prerecorded voice responses to provide information in response to dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF) or voice input from a telephone caller.
Industry:Software
(1) In SNA LU 6.2 conversations, the name of the program at the remote logical unit that is to be the other half of the conversation.<br />(2) The name by which each program participating in an LU 6.2 conversation is known. Normally, the initiator of a connection identifies the name of the program it connects to at the other LU. When used in conjunction with an LU name, a TPN identifies a specific transaction program in the network.
Industry:Software
(1) A subset of a data entry database (DEDB) that is defined as a VSAM entry-sequenced data set (ESDS). Each area in a DEDB consists of a root-addressable part, an independent-overflow part, and a sequential-dependent part. Areas contain the entire logical structure for a set of root segments and their dependent segments.<br />(2) In a link-state routing protocol, groups of contiguous networks and attached hosts. An autonomous system can be divided into areas, which are connected to each other by routers. Routers within the same area share an identical link-state database. See also autonomous system.
Industry:Software
(1) Hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software that is capable of accomplishing a specified purpose.<br />(2) In OSI, a logical grouping of related services.
Industry:Software
(1) In SNA, a network node that receives alerts from nodes that do not have defined focal points. See also primary focal point.<br />(2) A focal point that provides management services support for those nodes that have not been assigned a focal point. The set of nodes in the sphere of control (SOC) of a default focal point is not defined at either the focal point itself or the SOC nodes. A default focal point exchanges management services capabilities with all network nodes known to it; only those nodes that have not established a relationship with another focal point accept the request.
Industry:Software
An interprocess communications mechanism that allows a process to directly read data from, write data to, and share data with other processes without having the data manipulated by the operating system.
Industry:Software
An interprocess communications mechanism that contains one or more semaphores.
Industry:Software
