- 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) Data of type XML, including serialized XML or XDM instances. See also serialized XML, XDM instance.<br />(2) A collection of hierarchical nodes, based on XML instance documents, that can be stored in an XML column or can be returned from an XML column by an SQL or XQuery statement.
Industry:Software
(1) In HTTP, a parameter on the METHOD attribute of the FORM tag that specifies that a browser will send form data to a server in an HTTP transaction separate from that of the associated URL.<br />(2) A series of internal diagnostic tests activated each time the system power is turned on.
Industry:Software
(1) An interactive command interpreter and a command programming language.<br />(2) A command interpreter developed for UNIX, which forms the basis for the z/OS shell.
Industry:Software
(1) A string of bit combinations that is used to escape from normal data, such as text code points, into control information.<br />(2) A character that is preceded by a (backslash) and is interpreted to have a special meaning to the operating system.<br />(3) A sequence of characters that contains the symbol followed by one of the characters: a ,b ,f ,n ,r ,t ,v ,' , ,x , , or by one or more octal or hexadecimal digits.
Industry:Software
(1) In a relational database, a database object that consists of a specific number of columns and is used to store an unordered set of rows. See also base table, temporary table, view.<br />(2) An orderly arrangement of data in rows and columns that can contain numbers, text, or a combination of both.<br />(3) In COBOL, a set of logically consecutive data items that are defined in the Data Division with the OCCURS clause.<br />(4) In RPG, a series of elements with like characteristics. A table can be searched for a uniquely identified element, but elements in a table cannot be accessed by their position relative to other elements.
Industry:Software
(1) A user who has various system control authorities above and beyond that of the ordinary user. In UNIX environments, the standard superuser is root.<br />(2) See root user.
Industry:Software
(1) A technology that compresses and decompresses data for the purpose of reducing the bandwidth required to send streaming data.<br />(2) Pertaining to adapters that compress and decompress video files.
Industry:Software
(1) In a relational database, a field defined for a given record or row.<br />(2) The vertical component of a database table. A column has a name and a particular data type (for example, character, decimal, or integer).<br />(3) A character position within a print line or on a display. The positions are numbered consecutively from 1, starting at the leftmost character position and extending to the rightmost position.<br />(4) A vertical arrangement of characters or other expressions. Columns are positioned side by side on a page or display. See also row.<br />(5) A subdivision of a band, such as baseline or actual.
Industry:Software
(1) In Business Graphics Utility and the GDDM function, uniformly spaced horizontal and vertical lines on a chart.<br />(2) In AFP Utilities, horizontal and vertical lines printed on an AFP resource, such as an electronic overlay, to help in the design of the AFP resource.
Industry:Software
(1) In the GDDM function, a directed line segment, which is a straight line between two points.<br />(2) In SNA, a data structure containing three fields: a length field that specifies the length of the vector in which it is contained, an identifier or type field, and a value field. The value field may contain subvectors.<br />(3) An array of one dimension.<br />(4) A linearly ordered collection of scalars of the same type. Each scalar is said to be an element of the vector. See also array, scalar.
Industry:Software
