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International Business Machines
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) The component of z/OS that performs XRF processing. Specifically, the availability manager performs I/O prevention during takeover.<br />(2) In XRF, the programs that handle communication between active and alternate IMS, DL/I, or SQL/DS XRF systems. See also CICS availability manager.
Industry:Software
(1) The component that manages the multimedia file system.<br />(2) The provider of services for all the nodes using a single file system. A file system manager processes changes to the state or description of the file system, controls the regions of disks that are allocated to each node, and controls token management and quota management.
Industry:Software
(1) The composite of all operational entities, functions, and resources that form the total business concern and that require an information system.<br />(2) The aggregate of an organization's data center complexes. The enterprise is an object that is at the top of the hierarchical model of Tivoli Manager for OS/390 and Tivoli Availability Infrastructure Services.
Industry:Software
(1) The concept of separating the definitions of logical and physical data such that application programs do not depend on where or how physical units of data are stored; the reduction of application program modification in data storage structure and access strategy.<br />(2) In CICS, the ability to request data by a high-level data-management method without concern as to how the data is stored or retrieved.
Industry:Software
(1) The condition allowing users to access and use their applications and data.<br />(2) The time periods during which a resource is accessible. For example, a contractor might have an availability of 9 AM to 5 PM every weekday, and 9 AM to 3 PM on Saturdays.<br />(3) The delivery of reliable service during scheduled periods<br />(4) The total amount of time that a resource can devote to new assignments.
Industry:Software
(1) The condition that exists as long as accidental or intentional destruction, alteration, or loss of data does not occur.<br />(2) The security service that detects whether there has been unauthorized modification of data, or tampering. The service detects only whether data has been modified; it does not restore data to its original state if it has been modified.
Industry:Software
(1) The condition that occurs when data cannot fit in the designated field.<br />(2) A condition that occurs when a portion of the result of an operation exceeds the capacity of the intended unit of storage. See also exponent-overflow exception, fixed-point overflow exception.
Industry:Software
(1) The control center of the Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance software. The management server collects information from and provides services to the deployed management agents. The management server provides the services and user interface needed for centralized management.<br />(2) The server on which IBM Director Server is installed.<br />(3) The server and logical partition (LPAR) that are configured to manage Cluster Systems Management nodes.
Industry:Software
(1) The control of information necessary to identify both physical and logical information systems and their relationship to one another.<br />(2) A supporting process whose purpose is to identify, define, and baseline items; control modifications and releases of these items; report and record status of the items and modification requests; ensure completeness, consistency and correctness of the items; and control storage, handling and delivery of the items. See also configuration.<br />(3) The process of planning for, identifying, controlling, and verifying the configuration items within a service, recording and reporting their status and, in support of change management, assessing the potential impact of changing those items.
Industry:Software
(1) The conversion of a network address that is assigned to a logical unit in one network into an address in an adjacent network. See also static network address translation.<br />(2) In a firewall, the conversion of secure Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to external registered addresses. This enables communications with external networks but masks the IP addresses that are used inside the firewall.
Industry:Software