- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 98482
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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) To transform a program, for example by renaming a package or method, while preserving its behavior.<br />(2) To make changes across a set of artifacts without changing the behavior of the application or its relationships to other elements.
Industry:Software
A character transmitted on a telecommunication line that is not intended to represent data and does not result in an output operation at the accepting terminal.
Industry:Software
(1) To transform the data extracted from operational systems to make it usable by a data warehouse.<br />(2) To ensure that all values in a data set are consistent and correctly recorded.
Industry:Software
A character used in each position of an entry field to indicate its length. This indicator of entry field length is used on display devices that do not have the underscore attribute.
Industry:Software
(1) To write over (and therefore destroy) an existing file.<br />(2) A program segment that is loaded into main storage and replaces all or part of a previously loaded program segment.<br />(3) In Performance Tools, a graph that is placed on top of another graph so that a user can view both graphs at the same time.<br />(4) A collection of predefined data, such as lines, shading, text, boxes, or logos, that can be merged with variable data on a page or form while printing.<br />(5) The technique of repeatedly using the same areas of internal storage during different stages of a program. Unions are used to accomplish this in C and C++.
Industry:Software
A character used in the left margin to indicate that a document line is changed.
Industry:Software
(1) Transmission of control indicators over a link when there is no user data available to send. This is often necessary during complex procedures, such as establishing syncpoints.<br />(2) The sequence that dictates the order in which steps of a business process are executed. The sequence can include branching based on decisions, iterating over a set of steps until a certain condition is reached, and so on. In a collaboration, control flow refers to the path that a scenario takes, which depends on the order of action nodes in an activity diagram. When an action node has multiple transition links, the path reflects the state of those links. This path is illustrated in a top-to-bottom direction. See also transition link.<br />(3) In DB2 data warehousing, a graphical model that sequences data flows and mining flows, integrates external commands, programs, and stored procedures, and provides conditional processing logic for a data warehouse application.
Industry:Software
A character used to indicate that blanks were removed from a string of data and are to be reinserted.
Industry:Software
(1) Treating a transport network as though it were a single communication link or local area network (LAN).<br />(2) In Sametime, the encapsulation of one protocol within another. In Sametime, the Meeting Services and Community Services connection methods can be encapsulated within the HTTP or HTTPS protocol. This capability enables clients who connect to the Internet through HTTP or HTTPS proxy servers to establish Meeting Services and Community Services connections.
Industry:Software
A character used to represent optional characters at the front, middle, or end of a search term. Masking characters are normally used for finding variations of a term in a precise index. See also wildcard character.
Industry:Software
