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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.
An item in the source or target document that does not contain child items, only data. For example: EDI data elements, ROD fields, XML attributes, and XML PCData values.
Industry:Software
(1) The bit sequence 01111110 used to mark a frame in SDLC.<br />(2) Information about an extended attribute that is stored with the extended attribute.<br />(3) A modifier that appears on a command line with the command name that defines the action of the command. A dash usually precedes a flag.
Industry:Software
An item that a customer has indicated for recurring or potential purchase. An interest item is stored with quantity information, but not price information. See also shopping cart.
Industry:Software
(1) The process of changing from one method of data processing to another or from one data processing system to another. Changing a code point that is assigned to a character in one code page to its corresponding code point in another code page is an example of conversion.<br />(2) In programming languages, the transformation between values that represent the same data item but belong to different data types. Information may be lost because of conversion since accuracy of data representation varies among different data types.<br />(3) The process of changing from one form of representation to another. Changing a code point that is assigned to a character in one code page to its corresponding code point in another code page is an example of conversion.<br />(4) In DFSMSrmm, the process of moving removable-media-library inventory from another media management system to DFSMSrmm. DFSMSrmm manages the inventory and policies after conversion.
Industry:Software
(1) The combination of an operating system and hardware that makes up the operating environment in which a program runs.<br />(2) Any base of software technologies on which applications or services can be provided; for example, the Eclipse platform.
Industry:Software
An iterative development strategy in which the system is built by adding more and more functionality at each iteration. See also evolutionary development, iterative development.
Industry:Software
An iterative development strategy that acknowledges that user needs are not fully understood and therefore requirements are refined in each succeeding iteration (elaboration phase). See also incremental development, iterative development.
Industry:Software
(1) The number of characters printed per inch.<br />(2) A unit of measurement for the width of type (or a printed character), based on the number of characters that can be set (or printed) in one linear inch; for example, 10-pitch has 10 characters per inch. Uniformly spaced fonts are measured in pitch. See also point.
Industry:Software
An L2TP access concentrator (LAC)-L2TP network server (LNS) pair. A tunnel carries Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) datagrams between the LAC and the LNS. There may be many sessions in a single tunnel. A control connection that operates in the tunnel controls the establishment, release, and maintenance of sessions and the tunnel itself.
Industry:Software
