- 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) A field or set of fields in a dependent file of a constraint relationship. Each foreign key value must either match a parent key value in the related parent file or be null.<br />(2) A column or set of columns that refers to a parent key.<br />(3) In a relational database, a key in one table that references the primary key in another table. See also constraint, primary key, unique key.<br />(4) In a federated system, a key in one nickname that references the primary key in another nickname and that the optimizer uses to improve query performance. This key is not validated when operations such as insert and update are performed.
Industry:Software
(1) A section of a JSP set aside for displaying personalized data or content.<br />(2) A space in a library where a cartridge is stored. See also cell.<br />(3) For a fixed-length relative record data set (RRDS), the data area addressed by a relative record number that may contain a record or be empty.
Industry:Software
(1) A self-contained packet, independent of other packets, that carries information sufficient for routing from the originating data terminal equipment (DTE) to the destination DTE without relying on earlier exchanges between the DTEs and the network.<br />(2) A form of asynchronous messaging in which an application sends a message, but does not require a response.
Industry:Software
(1) A file that contains continuous streams of bits such as PC files, documents, and other data stored in System i folders.<br />(2) A file containing a continuous stream of data. Stream files are well suited for storing strings of data such as the text of a document, images, audio, and video. The content and format of stream files are managed by the application rather than by the system.
Industry:Software
(1) A sequence of bytes that is not associated with a CCSID. For example, the BLOB data type is a binary string. See also coded character set identifier.<br />(2) In REXX, a literal string expressed using a binary (base 2) representation of a value. The binary representation is a sequence of zero or more binary digits (the characters 0 or 1) enclosed in quotation marks and followed by the character b.
Industry:Software
(1) A file used to record changes made in a system.<br />(2) A collection of records that sequentially describes the events that occur in a system.<br />(3) In Backup, Recovery, and Media Services, a history of backup, archive, recovery, and media management operations. A log can be displayed online or printed.<br />(4) In WebSphere MQ, a file recording the work done by queue managers while they receive, transmit, and deliver messages, to enable them to recover in the event of failure.<br />(5) A record of events.
Industry:Software
(1) A sequence of consecutive characters that are treated as a unit.<br />(2) A sequence of bytes that represents bit data, single-byte characters, or a mixture of single-byte and multibyte characters.<br />(3) A contiguous sequence of characters terminated by and including the first null byte.
Industry:Software
(1) A sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and run without a user's intervention.<br />(2) In the Integrated Language Environment (ILE) model, the executable object that results from binding modules together.<br />(3) A file containing a set of instructions that conform to a particular programming language syntax.<br />(4) A prepared sequence of instructions to the system to accomplish a defined task. In POSIX.2, a program encompasses applications written in the shell command language, complex utility input languages, and high-level languages (HLLs).<br />(5) A single, compilable collection of executable statements in a programming language.
Industry:Software
(1) A flag that is formed by a character or a sequence of characters to group or separate items of data by marking the beginning and end of a unit of data. The delimiter is not a part of the flagged unit of data.<br />(2) A character, such as comma or tab, used to group or separate units of text by marking the boundary between them.
Industry:Software
(1) A form of a fullselect that is enclosed within parentheses and used as a component of a query.<br />(2) In SQL, a subselect used within a predicate. For example, a select-statement within the WHERE or HAVING clause of another SQL statement.
Industry:Software
