- 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 file that shares a common pool of buffers and a common pool of strings; that is, control blocks supporting I/O operations, with other files. See also nonshared resources.<br />(2) In the Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM), a resource in the local resource pool. See also VSAM record-level sharing, global shared resource, shared resource.
Industry:Software
(1) A sequence of bytes that is not associated with a CCSID. For example, the BLOB data type is a binary string. See also coded character set identifier.<br />(2) In REXX, a literal string expressed using a binary (base 2) representation of a value. The binary representation is a sequence of zero or more binary digits (the characters 0 or 1) enclosed in quotation marks and followed by the character b.
Industry:Software
(1) A file that specifies the characteristics of a program, system device, system, or network.<br />(2) In performance, a file that contains information about a collection as well as certain system attributes.<br />(3) A file that contains the values that are specified for configuration parameters. There are two types of configuration files: the database manager configuration file for each DB2 instance and the database configuration file for each individual database.<br />(4) See parameter file.<br />(5) A Struts file that contains information about data sources, form beans, global forwards, and action mappings.<br />(6) In WebSphere MQ on UNIX systems and WebSphere MQ for iSeries, a file that contains configuration information for logs, communications, or installable services.
Industry:Software
(1) A sequence of bytes with a size ranging from 0 bytes to 2 gigabytes less 1 byte. There are three types of LOBs: binary large objects (binary), character large objects (single-byte character or mixed), and double-byte character large objects (double-byte character). See also character large object.<br />(2) A data type used by databases for large objects.
Industry:Software
(1) A file used to record changes made in a system.<br />(2) A collection of records that sequentially describes the events that occur in a system.<br />(3) In Backup, Recovery, and Media Services, a history of backup, archive, recovery, and media management operations. A log can be displayed online or printed.<br />(4) In WebSphere MQ, a file recording the work done by queue managers while they receive, transmit, and deliver messages, to enable them to recover in the event of failure.<br />(5) A record of events.
Industry:Software
(1) A sequence of consecutive characters that are treated as a unit.<br />(2) A sequence of bytes that represents bit data, single-byte characters, or a mixture of single-byte and multibyte characters.<br />(3) A contiguous sequence of characters terminated by and including the first null byte.
Industry:Software
(1) A fixed-length area of direct access storage in which VSAM stores records and creates distributed free space. The control interval is the unit of information that VSAM transmits to or from direct access storage. A control interval always includes an integral number of physical records.<br />(2) In a key-sequenced data set or file, the set of records that an entry in the sequence-set index record points to.
Industry:Software
(1) A sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and run without a user's intervention.<br />(2) In the Integrated Language Environment (ILE) model, the executable object that results from binding modules together.<br />(3) A file containing a set of instructions that conform to a particular programming language syntax.<br />(4) A prepared sequence of instructions to the system to accomplish a defined task. In POSIX.2, a program encompasses applications written in the shell command language, complex utility input languages, and high-level languages (HLLs).<br />(5) A single, compilable collection of executable statements in a programming language.
Industry:Software
(1) A flag that is formed by a character or a sequence of characters to group or separate items of data by marking the beginning and end of a unit of data. The delimiter is not a part of the flagged unit of data.<br />(2) A character, such as comma or tab, used to group or separate units of text by marking the boundary between them.
Industry:Software
(1) A form of a fullselect that is enclosed within parentheses and used as a component of a query.<br />(2) In SQL, a subselect used within a predicate. For example, a select-statement within the WHERE or HAVING clause of another SQL statement.
Industry:Software
