upload
International Business Machines
Industry: Computer
Number of terms: 98482
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
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 collection of tables and views that contains descriptions of objects such as tables, views, and indexes.<br />(2) A directory of files and libraries, with reference to their locations.<br />(3) A data set that contains information about other data sets.<br />(4) A container that, depending on the container type, holds processes, data, resources, organizations, or reports in the project tree.<br />(5) To enter information about a data set or a library into a catalog.
Industry:Software
(1) A page in a catalog that displays category and product information.<br />(2) A page in an online store that is generated in response to a command.
Industry:Software
(1) A collection of user information, such as user IDs and passwords, that is used as the basis for security control by a system such as a Web application server.<br />(2) A database of known users and user-provided information that is used for authentication purposes.
Industry:Software
(1) A parameter that must appear in a specified location, relative to other parameters. See also keyword parameter.<br />(2) A variable within a shell program. Positional parameters are assigned from the shell's arguments when the shell is invoked
Industry:Software
(1) A collection of WebSphere Application Server nodes that defines a boundary for server cluster formation.<br />(2) Nodes having similar attribute values and defined as a group to facilitate node management.
Industry:Software
(1) A parameter whose value limits or defines the resources that can be used by the database manager or a database. Some configuration parameters are informational and define characteristics about the environment that cannot be changed. See also database configuration parameter.<br />(2) A variable that controls the behavior of the system or the behavior of all applications running on the system.
Industry:Software
key
(1) A column or an ordered collection of columns that is identified in the description of a table, index, or referential constraint. The same column can be part of more than one key.<br />(2) A cryptographic mathematical value that is used to digitally sign, verify, encrypt, or decrypt a message. See also private key, public key.<br />(3) One or more characters within an item of data that are used to uniquely identify a record and establish its order with respect to other records. See also alternate-index record.<br />(4) A button on a keyboard or key pad.<br />(5) Information that characterizes and uniquely identifies the real-world entity that is being tracked by a monitoring context.
Industry:Software
(1) A part of an XQuery path expression that generates a sequence of items and then filters the sequence by zero or more predicates. The value of the step consists of those items that satisfy the predicates. See also node test, path expression.<br />(2) To cause a computer to run one operation.
Industry:Software
(1) A communication sent from a person or program to another person or program.<br />(2) In OSI Message Services, a piece of electronic mail in the format of the X.400 CCITT standard. An X.400 message can be a document, note, message, or file.<br />(3) An assembly of characters and sometimes control codes that is transferred as an entity from an originator to one or more recipients. A message consists of two parts: envelope and content.<br />(4) A formatted transfer unit used to exchange control or payment information.<br />(5) In system programming, information intended for the terminal operator or system administrator.<br />(6) A set of data that is passed from one application to another. A message can be modeled by a message definition, which describes the structure and content of the message. Messages must have a structure and format that is agreed by the sending and receiving applications. See also category.<br />(7) In UML modeling, a model element that defines a specific kind of communication between participants (roles or objects) in an interaction.
Industry:Software
(1) A part of the i5/OS operating system that includes the application programming interfaces and the underlying file system support. HFS enables an application written in a high-level language to create, store, retrieve, and manipulate data on a storage device. The view of the data to the user is a hierarchical directory structure similar to DOS.<br />(2) A system for organizing files in a hierarchy, as in a UNIX system.
Industry:Software