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International Business Machines
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 privilege that accompanies the ownership of an object, such as the privilege to drop that object. Different authority levels and database authorities can also provide implicit privileges on one or more objects. See also explicit privilege.<br />(2) A privilege on one or more data objects that are referenced by a package. During package execution, the user ID running the package inherits within certain boundaries the privileges of the user ID that bound the package. See also authority level.
Industry:Software
(1) A coupling facility structure that lets data be shared and manipulated as elements of a queue.<br />(2) A coupling facility structure that enables multisystem applications in a sysplex to share information organized as a set of lists or queues. A list structure consists of a set of lists and an optional lock table, which can be used for serializing resources in the list structure. Each list consists of a queue of list entries.
Industry:Software
(1) A procedure that is not contained within a block. <br />(2) A procedure that has its procedural logic implemented in an external programming language application. The association of the procedure with the external application is specified by a CREATE PROCEDURE statement with a LANGUAGE clause that has a value other than SQL and an EXTERNAL clause that implicitly or explicitly specifies the name of the external application.
Industry:Software
(1) A customer request for a price quotation on alterations or additions to the functional capabilities of system control programming or licensed programs. The PRPQ may be used in conjunction with computing system RPQs to solve unique data processing problems. See also computing system RPQ.<br />(2) A customer request for a price quotation for a licensed program to be designed especially for a particular group of customers or an application. Documentation for the program is provided only to those customers who order the PRPQ. See also request for price quotation.
Industry:Software
(1) A process by which VTAM automatically creates a session-initiation request to establish a session between two logical units (LUs). The session is between a designated primary logical unit (PLU) and a secondary logical unit (SLU) that is neither queued for nor in session with another PLU.<br />(2) In VM, a process by which a virtual machine is initiated by other than the user of that virtual machine; for example, the primary VM operator's virtual machine is activated automatically during VM initialization.<br />(3) The option of IMS to automatically create a VTAM session for a non-signed-on user to whom output has been made available.
Industry:Software
(1) A customer who is registered with a store. To register, a customer provides personal information to the WebSphere Commerce system, such as an e-mail address.<br />(2) In WebSphere Commerce, a defined role that allows the reseller to shop in the marketplace. Resellers must first register in the marketplace and be approved by the seller administrator in order to attain the registered customer role.
Industry:Software
(1) A process in which an application server or any product that interacts with a database on behalf of applications establishes a finite set of connections to the database and maps requests from the applications to this set of connections. Using these connections reduces the overall connection time for these applications and removes the cost of establishing a database connection from the host.<br />(2) A technique used for establishing a pool of resource connections that applications can share on an application server.
Industry:Software
(1) A data array in which the various elements can be moved along the X and Y axes to produce a different aggregate view.<br />(2) A table characterized by having one metric as a column dimension and all the rest of the metrics represented as row dimensions.
Industry:Software
(1) A process in which groups of configuration parameters are updated and take effect at different rates.<br />(2) The escalation of resource-related information such as alerts or status.
Industry:Software
(1) A data authority that allows the user to look at the contents of an entry in an object.<br />(2) An authority subset that allows the user to read entries in an object. The system-recognized identifier is *R. *R authority combines object operational authority and read authority.
Industry:Software