- 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.
The process by which data sets or objects are identified for deletion because their expiration date or retention period has passed. On direct access storage devices (DASDs), data sets and objects are deleted; on tape, when all data sets have reached their expiration date, the tape volume is available for reuse.
Industry:Software
The reorganization of indexes on a table while the table and existing indexes are available for reading and updating by concurrent transactions.
Industry:Software
The place where operational data resides, such as a database or a log file.
Industry:Software
The process whose root activity a program currently has access to. A program acquires a process in one of two ways: either by defining it; or, if the process already exists, by issuing an ACQUIRE PROCESS command. The process remains acquired until the next syncpoint occurs. Acquiring a process enables the program to read and write to the process's data-containers, read and write to the root activity's data-containers and issue various commands, including RUN and LINK, against the process. A program can acquire only one process (root activity) or one descendant activity within the same unit of work. See also acquired activity.
Industry:Software
The process by which DFSMSrmm replenishes scratch volumes in a system-managed library when it detects that there are not enough scratch volumes available.
Industry:Software
The planning and management of all the resources in an enterprise.
Industry:Software
The process, internal to the database manager, by which a particular function instance is selected for invocation. The function name, the data types of the arguments, and the function path are used to make the selection.
Industry:Software
The process by which each processor in a complex controls its own job input, scheduling, and job output. See also centralized control.
Industry:Software
