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International Business Machines
Industry: Computer
Number of terms: 98482
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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 message or other indication that signals an event or an impending event.<br />(2) A notice that describes replication events and conditions. The Replication Alert Monitor sends alerts to an e-mail address or to a pager.<br />(3) To cause the user's terminal to give some audible or visual indication that an error or some other event has occurred.
Industry:Software
(1) A characteristic of an object that describes the object. A property can be changed or modified. Properties can describe an object's name, type, value, or behavior, among other things.<br />(2) A characteristic or attribute that describes a unit of information.<br />(3) Any configurable information about a WebSphere business integration component. A component typically has properties that are common to all components of that type (for example, standard connector properties) as well as properties that are specific to that component (for example, connector-specific properties). See also business object property, collaboration property, standard property.<br />(4) In the Common Information Model (CIM), an attribute that is used to characterize instances of a class.
Industry:Software
(1) A message that provides information about the system and is not the result of an error condition. This message does not require a response.<br />(2) In Q replication and event publishing, a message about the status of the Q Capture program, a Q subscription, or an XML publication.
Industry:Software
(1) A characteristic of data that is maintained across session boundaries, or of an object that continues to exist after the execution of the program or process that created it, usually in nonvolatile storage such as a database system.<br />(2) In Java EE, the protocol for transferring the state of an entity bean between its instance variables and an underlying database. (Sun)
Industry:Software
(1) A message with a description that is created and stored in a message file before it is sent by the program. See also immediate message.<br />(2) A message for which a matching definition exists in the message model with an appropriate set of properties and in the correct context. See also self-defining message, predefined element.
Industry:Software
(1) A characteristic or trait of an entity that describes the entity; for example, the telephone number of an employee is one of that employee's attributes.<br />(2) In user interface manager (UIM) tag language, an identifier used with related material that takes on a specific meaning, such as an action to be taken or the characteristics of text or data.<br />(3) In object oriented programming, a property of an object or class that can be distinguished distinctly from any other properties. Attributes often describe state information.<br />(4) A property, quality, or characteristic whose value contributes to the specification of an element or program function. For example, "cost" or "location" are attributes that can be assigned to a resource. See also array attribute, simple attribute, single-cardinality attribute.<br />(5) Data associated with a component. For example, a server component might have attributes such as host name, IP address, operating system type, operating system version, number of CPUs, CPU speed, type of RAM, number of hard drives, network domain, and so on.<br />(6) Descriptive information that provides important details about a requirement or discussion.<br />(7) The information, data, or properties that belong to instances of a classifier.<br />(8) In markup languages such as SGML, XML, and HTML, a name-value pair within a tagged element that modifies features of the element.<br />(9) A system or application element being monitored by a monitoring agent, such as Disk Name and Disk Read/Writes Per Second.
Industry:Software
(1) A method for verifying data.<br />(2) Formulas used to calculate the check digit for a self-check field.
Industry:Software
(1) A CICS facility that handles the flow of control among application programs.<br />(2) An RACF function with which an installation can control who runs RACF-controlled programs.
Industry:Software
(1) A method of operation in which the actions that are available to a user are determined by the state or setting of the system, program, or device.<br />(2) In data communications, the set of rules and protocols to be used for a session.<br />(3) The processing state of an activity. An activity can be in an initial, active, dormant (that is, waiting for an event), cancelling, or complete mode.<br />(4) A collection of attributes that specifies a file's type and its access permissions.
Industry:Software
(1) A CICS facility that provides inbound and outbound support for communication from other computer systems. See also interregion communication.<br />(2) An extension of IMS Multiple Systems Coupling that permits the connection of IMS to another IMS subsystem, to CICS/MVS, or to a user-written subsystem, provided both subsystems use ISC.
Industry:Software