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drain
(1) The act of acquiring a locked resource by quiescing access to that object. See also claim, logical drain.
(2) An operator action to halt the flow of jobs to a printer, usually to stop the printer or to change print options.
(3) To honor pending allocation requests before deactivating sessions with a partner logical unit. This applies to LU 6.2 only.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Software
- Category: Globalization software service
- Company: IBM
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