- 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 current condition or state of a program or device, for example, the status of a printer.<br />(2) The true or false condition of a situation.
Industry:Software
(1) The data object containing information that is associated with a connection that is managed by DB2 ODBC. This information includes general status information, transaction status information, and diagnostic information. See also statement handle.<br />(2) The identifier or token by which a program accesses the queue manager to which it is connected.<br />(3) A representation of a physical connection.
Industry:Software
(1) The DB2 for z/OS system database that contains internal objects such as database descriptors and skeleton cursor tables.<br />(2) A type of file that contains the names and controlling information for objects or other directories.<br />(3) In a hierarchical file system, a grouping of related files and directories. A directory can contain zero or more entries, which refer to other directories and files.<br />(4) In OSI, a repository of information about objects. As defined in the X.500 directory standards, a directory is both a repository of information and the set of services provided to enable its users to access the information in the repository.<br />(5) A table of identifiers and references to the corresponding items of data.<br />(6) A collection of open systems that cooperate to hold a logical database of information about a set of objects in the real world.<br />(7) The part of a partitioned data set that describes the members in the data set.<br />(8) In UNIX, a file that maps the names of other directories and files to their locations.
Industry:Software
(1) The definition of a non-Document Interchange Architecture (DIA) document user type that identifies the document type number, name, and text associated with the document.<br />(2) The rules that specify the structure for a particular class of SGML or XML documents. The DTD defines the structure with elements, attributes, and notations, and it establishes constraints for how each element, attribute, and notation can be used within the particular class of documents.
Industry:Software
(1) The degree or extent to which the system can be restored to an operational condition after a system failure.<br />(2) The ability of a system to continue processing without loss of data when an unplanned interruption occurs.
Industry:Software
(1) The delayed connection of a program to a routine until load time or run time.<br />(2) Linking on demand at run time. See also static linking.
Industry:Software
(1) The device within an auxiliary storage device that moves the read/write heads.<br />(2) A device that causes mechanical motion.
Industry:Software
(1) The direct-access data set used to contain the information necessary to restart IMS.<br />(2) A VSAM KSDS used only during a CICS emergency restart. The RSD temporarily holds the backout information read from the CICS system log. This allows CICS to be restored to a stable state and to be restarted following an abrupt termination.
Industry:Software
(1) The disk accessed exclusively by Microsoft Cluster Server to store the cluster recovery log, and to determine whether a server is up or down. Only one server can own the quorum disk at a time. Servers in the cluster can negotiate for the ownership.<br />(2) A managed disk (MDisk) that contains a reserved area used exclusively for cluster management. The quorum disk is accessed in the event that it is necessary to determine which half of the cluster will continue to read and write data.
Industry:Software
(1) The displayed, printed, or plotted output that represents the horizontal and vertical axis variables specified by the user for a collection of data.<br />(2) See chart.
Industry:Software
