- 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) In Java, a class from which a particular class is inherited, perhaps with one or more classes in between.<br />(2) See parent class.
Industry:Software
(1) In Java, a class that is derived from a particular class, through inheritance.<br />(2) In a generalization relationship, the specialization of another class; the superclass.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to spooled input data that is read into a job by a reader.<br />(2) In Content Manager, the property of an object that is online and in a drive, but has no active mounts.<br />(3) To replace a function call with a copy of the function's code during compilation.
Industry:Software
(1) In Java, a group of methods that can be implemented by several classes, regardless of where the classes are in the class hierarchy.<br />(2) In object-oriented programming, an abstract model of behavior; a collection of functions or methods.<br />(3) A shared boundary between independent systems. An interface can be a hardware component used to link two devices, a convention that supports communication between software systems, or a method for a user to communicate with the operating system, such as a keyboard.<br />(4) A collection of operations that are used to specify a service of a class or a component. See also class, port type.<br />(5) In UML modeling, a model element that defines sets of operations that other model elements, such as classes or components, must implement.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to the control of a security policy.<br />(2) Pertaining to a federated wrapper that is defined, via the DB2_FENCED wrapper option, to run in the database manager process. When a wrapper runs in trusted mode, the database manager is not protected from changes made by this object. See also fenced.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to the dialog-like exchange of information between people and a computer. See also batch.<br />(2) Pertaining to a program or system that alternately accepts input and responds.
Industry:Software
(1) An instance of a data-processing system that appears to be at the exclusive disposal of a single user, but whose functions are accomplished by sharing the resources of a physical data-processing system.<br />(2) An abstract specification for a computing device that can be implemented in different ways in software and hardware.
Industry:Software
(1) An instance of a program running on a system and the resources that it uses.<br />(2) For Common Programming APIs ToolKit, the collection of all i5/OS jobs sharing an activation group.<br />(3) In System Manager, a combination of systems management applications that accomplishes one or more customer tasks or a part of a task. A process can contain other processes.<br />(4) See job.<br />(5) In Business Transaction Services (BTS), a collection of one or more activities. A process is the largest unit that CICS business transaction services can work with, and has a unique name by which it can be referenced and invoked. Typically, a process is an instance of a business transaction.<br />(6) A progressively continuing procedure consisting of a series of controlled activities that are systematically directed toward a particular result or end.<br />(7) An address space and single thread of control that executes within that address space, and its required system resources. A process is created by another process issuing the fork() function. The process that issues the fork() function is known as the parent process, and the new process created by the fork() function is known as the child process.<br />(8) The sequence of documents or messages to be exchanged between the Community Managers and participants to run a business transaction.<br />(9) A separately executable unit of work.
Industry:Software
(1) In license management, a license gives the user authorization to use a user-based priced product.<br />(2) A permission granted by competent authority to engage in a business or occupation or in an action otherwise unlawful.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to the direction opposite to data flow, which is toward the source of a transmission. See also downstream.<br />(2) Pertaining to the direction of the flow, which is from the start of the process (upstream) toward the end of the process (downstream).
Industry:Software
