- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 98482
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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) An entity that performs measurements to collect data pertaining to the performance, availability, reliability, or other attributes of applications or the systems on which the applications rely. These measurements can be compared to predefined thresholds. If a threshold is exceeded, administrators can be notified, or predefined automated responses can be performed.<br />(2) In a privacy management environment, an entity that checks PII-classified storage locations for attempts to submit data or retrieve data.<br />(3) In enterprise search, a user who has the authority to observe collection-level processes.<br />(4) A facility of the integration test client that listens for requests and responses that flow over the component wires or exports in the modules of a test configuration.<br />(5) In performance profiling, to collect data about an application from the running agents that are associated with that application.
Industry:Software
(1) In distributed relational database, an identifier or short label that is mapped by the environmental descriptors to a named resource.<br />(2) A 1-byte identifier assigned to parts of the data stream to facilitate PSF processing. For example, the Map Coded Font structured field assigns each coded font a local identifier. When a coded font is required for processing, this identifier is specified in the Set Coded Font Local text control. Other local identifiers are assigned to suppressions and overlays. See also coded font local identifier.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to a device, file, or system that is accessed directly from a user's system, without the use of a communication line. See also remote.<br />(2) In OSI, pertaining to the node from which one views the rest of the network.<br />(3) Pertaining to information that is defined and used only in one subdivision of a computer program. See also global.<br />(4) In programming languages, pertaining to the relationship between a language object and a block such that the language object has a scope contained in that block.<br />(5) Pertaining to an element that is available only in its own process. See also global.
Industry:Software
(1) An entry-point name or external variable that is defined or referred to in a particular module or program.<br />(2) An item defined in a high-level language program that represents such things as procedures or variables. Resolving external symbols is the means by which the binder connects modules to form a bound program or a service program.
Industry:Software
(1) In dynamic data exchange (DDE), the data that is to be exchanged within a DDE conversation.<br />(2) A character string that describes the nature of the data that is being published in a publish/subscribe system.<br />(3) A single Web page at any level within an information center hierarchy.<br />(4) An independent unit of information that follows the rules for a specific information type and that is meaningful when it is displayed alone.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to a group of jobs to be run on a computer sequentially with the same program with little or no operator action. See also interactive.<br />(2) A group of records or data processing jobs brought together for processing or transmission.
Industry:Software
(1) An error that occurs sporadically and that may not appear on successive attempts to read data.<br />(2) An intermittent error on a network that requires retransmission. A soft error by itself does not affect overall reliability of a network, but reliability may be affected if the number of soft errors reaches the ring error limit.
Industry:Software
(1) In dynamic data exchange, the identifier for a source of data. For example, the top, left cell position in a spreadsheet is row 1, column 1. This cell's item is R1C1.<br />(2) The data in one line of an indexed field.<br />(3) An entity that has a part number or SKU. See also defining attribute.<br />(4) In Content Manager, generic term for an instance of an item type. For example, an item might be a folder, document, video, or image. See also semantic type.<br />(5) Generic term for the smallest unit of information that Information Integrator for Content administers. Each item has an identifier. For example, an item might be a folder or a document.<br />(6) In EGL, a named area of memory that contains a single value.<br />(7) In XQuery, a part of a sequence that is either an atomic value or a node. See also atomic value, node.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to a member of a class that is accessible only to member functions and friends of that class.<br />(2) Property of a software entity that is visible only to other software entities which share the same owner. See also owner.
Industry:Software
(1) An exact reproduction of all or part of a table space. DB2 for z/OS provides utility programs to make full image copies (to copy the entire table space) or incremental image copies (to copy only those pages that were modified since the last image copy).<br />(2) A backup copy of a data set, used to restore the data set if necessary after a failure.
Industry:Software
