- 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 symbolic name of an individual device.<br />(2) A name reserved by the system or a device driver that refers to a specific device. For example, the DOS device name for the parallel port is LPT1.
Industry:Software
(1) The system component that coordinates the commit or rollback of a unit of work that includes work that is done on one or more other systems.<br />(2) In a multi-MVS or VSE MRO XRF configuration, a region that receives requests from master regions to initiate a takeover. It then instructs all the alternate regions to take over. See also master, subordinate.
Industry:Software
(1) The system function of putting files or jobs into disk storage for later processing or printing.<br />(2) To reduce, through the use of auxiliary storage as buffer storage, processing delays when transferring data between peripheral equipment and the processors of a computer.
Industry:Software
(1) The system that is the origin or destination of a session.<br />(2) A host or gateway that comprises part of a virtual private network (VPN) connection.<br />(3) The ultimate recipient of an operation.<br />(4) A JCA application or other client consumer of an event from the enterprise information system.
Industry:Software
(1) The system that receives a request from another system. See also source system.<br />(2) In upgrades, the planned hardware configuration and software level which will exist when the upgrade is completed.<br />(3) A managed system on which an IBM Director task is performed.
Industry:Software
(1) The target of a request from an application requester. The database management system (DBMS) at the application server site services the request. See also application requester, DB2 Embedded Application Server.<br />(2) A server program in a distributed network that provides the execution environment for an application program.<br />(3) Software that handles communication with the client requesting an asset and queries of the Content Manager.<br />(4) A host that is attached to the storage area network (SAN) and that runs applications.
Industry:Software
(1) The text file that records messages and errors from the license server, and sometimes from licensed products.<br />(2) The file where the log of events is recorded.<br />(3) In WebSphere MQ on UNIX systems, and WebSphere MQ for Windows, a file in which all significant changes to the data controlled by a queue manager are recorded. If the primary log files become full, WebSphere MQ allocates secondary log files.
Industry:Software
(1) The time stamp that is located in the Notes database header and that indicates when a Notes database was first created or when the Fixup task last ran on it.<br />(2) An internal identifier of the database.
Industry:Software
(1) The trading mechanism used when a buyer solicits quotes for a specific set of goods or services. It can be used if a buyer does not find a particular item in the catalog, finds an item without a price, or wants to establish a long-term supply arrangement for a fixed-price item.<br />(2) A formal invitation to submit a price for goods and/or services as specified.
Industry:Software
(1) The transfer of an image to a sheet of paper. Multiple impressions can be printed on each side of a sheet. Printer speed is often measured in impressions per minute (ipm).<br />(2) In Web advertising, an ad's appearance on an accessed page. For example, if a Web page displays three ads, each ad would have one impression. Online publishers often sell ad space according to impressions. See also clickthrough rate.
Industry:Software
