- 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) The ability to change how objects on a personal computer look and work. For example, a user can tailor what objects are in a work area by creating, moving, or copying objects to the work area.<br />(2) The process of describing optional changes to defaults of a software program that is already installed on the system and configured so that it can be used. See also configuration.<br />(3) The process of designing a data processing installation or network to meet the requirements of particular users. Activities can include installing additional products, taking advantage of new software features and functions, and enabling or disabling optional features.<br />(4) The modification of a portal page or portlet by a user. WebSphere Portal enables a user to customize a portal page by modifying the page layout and by selecting which portlets will display per device. See also personalization.
Industry:Software
(1) The ability to read, update, or otherwise use a resource. Access to protected resources is usually controlled by system software.<br />(2) To obtain computing services or data.
Industry:Software
(1) The act a terminal user performs in order to identify a user to IMS. When the terminal is an ETO terminal, the signon process also creates a user structure and connects the user structure to the terminal structure.<br />(2) The procedure by which the user starts working at a workstation.<br />(3) A request that is made on behalf of an individual CICS or IMS application process by an attachment facility to enable DB2 for z/OS to verify that it is authorized to use DB2 resources.
Industry:Software
(1) The act of acquiring a locked resource by quiescing access to that object. See also claim, logical drain.<br />(2) An operator action to halt the flow of jobs to a printer, usually to stop the printer or to change print options.<br />(3) To honor pending allocation requests before deactivating sessions with a partner logical unit. This applies to LU 6.2 only.
Industry:Software
(1) The act of giving other users or groups the authority to perform operations.<br />(2) The process of propagating a security identity from a caller to a called object. According to the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) specification, a servlet and an enterprise bean can propagate either the client identity when invoking enterprise beans, or can use another specified identity as indicated in the corresponding deployment descriptor.
Industry:Software
(1) The act of packaging enterprise beans into a JAR file for distribution to a container on an enterprise bean server.<br />(2) The process of making WebSphere Commerce application code available for use. This process includes packaging customized commands, data beans, and enterprise beans into JAR files. The JAR files must then be installed and configured within a container.
Industry:Software
(1) The actions that an administrator or Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator is to take if a certain new item or if a difference in the data center model is discovered.<br />(2) A policy that defines an area of the Web environment to investigate and sample the transaction activity of real customers and average performance times for Uniform Resource Indicator (URI) requests during a specified time period so you can set a baseline of performance.
Industry:Software
(1) The actual character value (a symbol, quantity, or constant) in a source program that is itself data, instead of reference to a field that contains the data. See also numeric constant.<br />(2) In the C language, a character or an escape sequence enclosed in quotation marks.<br />(3) A constant value whose data attribute is character.
Industry:Software
(1) The actual numeric value to be used in processing, instead of the name of a field containing the data. A numeric constant can contain any of the numeric digits 0 through 9, a sign (plus or minus), and a decimal point. See also character constant.<br />(2) A constant that expresses an integer, a real number, or a complex number.
Industry:Software
(1) The address of a particular device, specified at the time a system is installed.<br />(2) In mainframe computing, the address associated with a device on a given control unit. On ESCON or FICON interfaces, the unit address is the same as the device address. On OEMI interfaces, the unit address specifies a control unit and device pair on the interface.<br />(3) The identifier for a logical subsystem and the logical device within the subsystem.
Industry:Software
