- 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) The CICS facility for managing basic operations against a file (ADD, READ, DELETE, REWRITE, and BROWSE).<br />(2) COBOL, the name and header of an Environment Division paragraph in which the data files for a source program are named and assigned to specific input/output devices.
Industry:Software
(1) The CICS facility that allows application programs to store data in a temporary storage queue for later retrieval.<br />(2) See working storage.
Industry:Software
(1) The classification of a user by the system task, such as security officer, security administrator, programmer, system operator, and user. Each user class has a set of special authorities depending on the security level of the system. The user class determines which options are shown on the IBM-supplied menus.<br />(2) A z/VM privilege category assigned to a user of a guest virtual machine in the user's directory entry; each class specified allows access to a logical subset of all the z/VM Control Program (CP) commands.
Industry:Software
(1) The DB2 structure that describes an application's connection, traces its progress, processes resource functions, and delimits its accessibility to DB2 resources and services. Most DB2 functions execute under a thread structure.<br />(2) A stream of computer instructions that is in control of a process. In some operating systems, a thread is the smallest unit of operation in a process. Several threads can run concurrently, performing different jobs.<br />(3) The messages or documents that capture a written conversation about a topic. In Notes, a thread consists of an initial mail message or document and all its replies, contained in a view or displayed as a history in a document.
Industry:Software
(1) The collection and presentation of data about multiple CICS systems as though they were a single CICS system. In CICSPlex SM, the single-system image is provided by the CICSPlex SM address space (CMAS).<br />(2) A cluster of DirectTalk systems that are connected together using a local area network. Each system (known as a node) in the cluster is configured as either a client or a server.
Industry:Software
(1) The combination of authentication, key exchange algorithm, and CipherSpec used by SSL for secure exchange of data.<br />(2) A set of ciphers.
Industry:Software
(1) The combination of hardware and software in a computer system that enforces a unified security policy. This term is used by the U.S. Department of Defense.<br />(2) The part of the system that contains all the elements that support the security policy of the system. The trusted computing base includes all hardware, microcode, and software that protect information on the system.
Industry:Software
(1) The communications media that join two network nodes together. A subnetwork is a representation within the OSI reference model of a real network, such as a carrier network, a private network, or a local area network (LAN).<br />(2) A distinct partitioned piece of an internet network represented by two or more sets of addresses that are subsets of the network's range of addresses.<br />(3) A configuration whereby a single IP network address is split up so it can be used on several interconnected local networks. A subnetwork is a local configuration; outside it appears as a single IP network.
Industry:Software
(1) The completion of an interrupted two-phase commit process for a unit of work.<br />(2) A track image copy from the primary volume to the secondary volume of only the tracks that have changed since the volume was last in duplex mode.
Industry:Software
