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International Business Machines
Industry: Computer
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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.
(1) In a CREATE TRIGGER statement, the specification of an insert, update, or delete operation on a specified table that activates the trigger. See also trigger activation, trigger activation time, triggered action, trigger granularity.<br />(2) A change operation that calls the trigger action to be run. The trigger event can be an insert, update, or delete operation in any high-level language and in SQL.<br />(3) An event, such as a message arriving on a queue, that causes a queue manager to create a trigger message on an initiation queue.
Industry:Software
(1) In SNA, data sent with a negative response, indicating the reason for the response.<br />(2) In printers, sense information used to indicate the causes of command-stream and device exceptions and to direct the host program to the appropriate exception-recovery actions.
Industry:Software
(1) A symbol that is used to modify the interpretation of the character or characters that follow it. Examples of uses of escape characters in SQL are delimiting identifiers, delimiting character constants, and modifying the special meaning of the underscore (_) and percent (%) characters in the LIKE predicate.<br />(2) A character that suppresses or selects a special meaning for one or more characters that follow.<br />(3) The control character in a text-control sequence that indicates the beginning of a sequence and the end of any preceding text.
Industry:Software
(1) In a database, the successive vertical dependencies in a hierarchical structure.<br />(2) A set of one or more related attributes that work together as one logical step in a hierarchy. Attributes can function in one or more roles in a level.
Industry:Software
(1) In SNA, one or more chains of request units and their responses, representing a complete transaction, exchanged between two session partners.<br />(2) Either of the characters left bracket (() and right bracket ()).
Industry:Software
An interruption that occurs when an I/O channel obtains a channel command word with the program-controlled interruption flag on.
Industry:Software
(1) A synchronization function that is used to allow multiple jobs or processes to serialize their access to shared data.<br />(2) An abstraction that enables two or more threads to cooperate in a mutual exclusion protocol providing safe access to shared resources.<br />(3) A flag used by a semaphore to protect shared resources. The mutex is locked and unlocked by threads in a program. See also mutex attribute object.
Industry:Software
(1) In a federated database system, a description of a data source.<br />(2) One or more WSDL files that describe a service. Service definitions are produced by the Definition, Deployment, Adaptor, Skeleton, and Proxy wizards.<br />(3) An explicit definition of all the workloads and processing capacity in a sysplex. A service definition includes service policies, workloads, service classes, resource groups, and classification rules.
Industry:Software
(1) In SNA, the combination of the transmission connection, protocol, devices, and programming joining network nodes.<br />(2) A part of Recommendation X.25 that defines the link protocol used to get data into and out of the network across the duplex line connecting the subscriber's equipment to the network.
Industry:Software
(1) A System i Navigator tool that gathers and displays real-time performance data for the system.<br />(2) In finance communications, a 4700 controller program used to perform service, configuration, and debugging functions on that controller.<br />(3) See database system monitor.
Industry:Software