- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 98482
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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 function, method, or procedure that has its routine logic implemented in a programming language application that resides outside the database, in the file system of the database server. The association of the routine with the external code application is specified by the EXTERNAL clause in the CREATE statement for the routine. See also external function, external procedure, external method, routine.<br />(2) In REXX, a program external to the user's program, language processor, or both. These routines can be written in any language (including REXX) that supports the system-dependent interfaces used by REXX to start it.<br />(3) A user-defined function or stored procedure that is based on code that is written in an external programming language.
Industry:Software
(1) A set of actions representing a business process within the context of a collaboration. Scenarios can be used to partition a collaboration's logic. For example, if a collaboration handles one type of business object with various possible verbs, the user might develop Create, Update, and Delete scenarios. See also activity.<br />(2) A specific sequence of actions that illustrates behaviors. A scenario may be used to illustrate an interaction or the execution of one or more use-case instances. See also interaction, use case.
Industry:Software
(1) A functional group of Web pages. A topic collection can be a grouping at any level within an information center hierarchy.<br />(2) A set of closely related topics that is presented in a standard hierarchy within an information unit.
Industry:Software
(1) A set of attributes that represent a business entity (such as Employee), an action on the data (such as a create or update operation), and instructions for processing the data. Components of the business integration system use business objects to exchange information and trigger actions. See also data object, business item, Service Data Objects, business graph, private business object.<br />(2) A specification type of the autonomic computing architecture that defines an aggregation of data segments. This type of specification describes information commonly exchanged among applications.
Industry:Software
(1) A functional unit into which data can be placed, in which it can be retained, and from which it can be retrieved. See also virtual storage.<br />(2) The location of saved information.
Industry:Software
(1) A set of characteristics of the system that hosts the system under test. These characteristics affect the conditions for test execution and the evaluation of test results.<br />(2) A property of the integration test client that is used to specify modules for testing and to control the tests.
Industry:Software
(1) A functional unit or a part of an I/O controller that connects devices to an I/O processor.<br />(2) For devices, the electrical circuits on a logic card that connect one device to another.<br />(3) A circuit board containing logic and internal software that bridges an internal processor or memory interconnect scheme and an external, common, standard channel or link.
Industry:Software
(1) A set of characters, meta characters, and operators that define a string or group of strings in a search pattern.<br />(2) A string containing wildcard characters and operations that define a set of one or more possible strings. See also literal string.<br />(3) A mechanism for selecting specific strings from a set of character strings.<br />(4) A sequence of characters or symbols constructed according to the rules defined in POSIX.2 2.8.
Industry:Software
The VSAM data set that is the base or normal route of file access in a VSAM alternate index arrangement.
Industry:Software
Verification that the current state of an object satisfies the programmer-defined invariant properties of its class.
Industry:Software
