- 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) Pertaining to the dialog-like exchange of information between people and a computer. See also batch.<br />(2) Pertaining to a program or system that alternately accepts input and responds.
Industry:Software
An interface, with few restrictions, for use in customer-written programs. The majority of programming interfaces are general-use programming interfaces, and are appropriate in a wide variety of application programs.
Industry:Software
(1) An instance of a data-processing system that appears to be at the exclusive disposal of a single user, but whose functions are accomplished by sharing the resources of a physical data-processing system.<br />(2) An abstract specification for a computing device that can be implemented in different ways in software and hardware.
Industry:Software
(1) In Language Environment, an independent collection of routines, one of which is designated as the main routine. An enclave is similar to a program or run unit.<br />(2) A transaction that can span multiple dispatchable units (service request blocks and tasks) in one or more address spaces and is reported on and managed as a unit.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to the direction of data flow, which is toward the destination of a transmission. See also upstream.<br />(2) Pertaining to the direction of the flow, which is from the first node in the process (upstream) toward the last node in the process (downstream).
Industry:Software
(1) An instance of a program running on a system and the resources that it uses.<br />(2) For Common Programming APIs ToolKit, the collection of all i5/OS jobs sharing an activation group.<br />(3) In System Manager, a combination of systems management applications that accomplishes one or more customer tasks or a part of a task. A process can contain other processes.<br />(4) See job.<br />(5) In Business Transaction Services (BTS), a collection of one or more activities. A process is the largest unit that CICS business transaction services can work with, and has a unique name by which it can be referenced and invoked. Typically, a process is an instance of a business transaction.<br />(6) A progressively continuing procedure consisting of a series of controlled activities that are systematically directed toward a particular result or end.<br />(7) An address space and single thread of control that executes within that address space, and its required system resources. A process is created by another process issuing the fork() function. The process that issues the fork() function is known as the parent process, and the new process created by the fork() function is known as the child process.<br />(8) The sequence of documents or messages to be exchanged between the Community Managers and participants to run a business transaction.<br />(9) A separately executable unit of work.
Industry:Software
(1) In license management, a license gives the user authorization to use a user-based priced product.<br />(2) A permission granted by competent authority to engage in a business or occupation or in an action otherwise unlawful.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to the direction opposite to data flow, which is toward the source of a transmission. See also downstream.<br />(2) Pertaining to the direction of the flow, which is from the start of the process (upstream) toward the end of the process (downstream).
Industry:Software
(1) An instruction in a program or procedure.<br />(2) In programming languages, a language construct that represents a step in a sequence of actions or a set of declarations.
Industry:Software
(1) In Linux and UNIX operating systems, a user who has superuser authority and root privileges. A root user's user identifier (UID) is 0.<br />(2) A system user who operates without restrictions. A root user has the special rights and privileges needed to perform administrative tasks.
Industry:Software
