- 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) In COBOL, a key field whose contents identify a record within an indexed file.<br />(2) In RPG, all the key fields defined for the record type.
Industry:Software
(1) In Tivoli NetView, a particular view of some aspect of a network that displays symbols that represent objects. The application program that creates a submap determines what part of the network the submap displays.<br />(2) A map that is called from within another map. Submaps are often used to map child business objects.
Industry:Software
(1) A unique bit pattern that represents a character in a code page. See also code page.<br />(2) For SNA alerts, a 1-or 2-byte hexadecimal code that designates a particular piece of text to be displayed at the focal point.<br />(3) An identifier in an alert description that represents a short unit of text. The code point is replaced with the text by an alert display program.<br />(4) In QoS, pertaining to a specific value in the Differentiated Services field of a data packet that signals to a network the behavior that is assigned to that packet.
Industry:Software
(1) In an externally described display or printer file, an unnamed field that contains actual data that is passed to the display or printer but is unknown to the program passing it.<br />(2) A field defined by a display format to contain a value that does not change.
Industry:Software
(1) A VSAM data set that is contained within a partitioned table space.<br />(2) A set of table rows that is stored separately from other sets of rows. A data partition is grouped by the specifications that are provided in the PARTITION BY clause of the CREATE TABLE statement. See also database partitioning, table partitioning.
Industry:Software
(1) In COBOL, a method of adding records to the end of a sequential file when the file is opened.<br />(2) In COBOL, the state of a file after running an OPEN statement, with the EXTEND phrase specified for that file, and before running a CLOSE statement, without the REEL or UNIT phrase specified for that file.
Industry:Software
(1) In Tivoli Software Distribution, Version 4, any Windows 95 (or later), Windows NT, or OS/2 system on which the Tivoli Software Distribution Java Endpoint Package Editor is installed.<br />(2) In Tivoli Software Distribution, Version 3, any Windows system on which the AutoPack Control Center is installed.
Industry:Software
(1) A unique code or identifier for a register, device, workstation, system, or storage location.<br />(2) The second part of a two-part user identification used to send distributions.
Industry:Software
(1) In APPC, a reference point during transaction processing to which resources can be restored if a failure occurs.<br />(2) In OSI, a point to which a session can be reset. Setting a synchronization point requires the appropriate token. Synchronization points are a session-layer service.<br />(3) A point in time from which IMS or an application program can start over if a failure makes recovery necessary. The two types of synchronization points are system checkpoints done by IMS itself, and application program synchronization points (also known as commit points) done on behalf of individual application programs. See also commit point, system checkpoint.
Industry:Software
(1) In the C, COBOL, and REXX languages, a token that specifies the type of action to be done on one or more terms. The four types of operators are concatenation, arithmetic, comparison, and logical.<br />(2) In an access plan for an SQL or XQuery statement, a token that specifies the type of action that must be performed on data or on the output from a table or an index when the access plan is executed.<br />(3) In Query Patroller, a person who has a subset of administrator authorities, as defined in his or her operator profile. See also profile.<br />(4) An enterprise search user who has the authority to observe, start, and stop collection-level processes.
Industry:Software
