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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 call transfer method in which the primary and secondary lines remain bridged until a call is completed.<br />(2) See trombone.
Industry:Software
(1) A called programme that is combined with the calling programme at run time to produce a run unit. A subprogram is below the calling programme in the call stack.<br />(2) A programme that is called by another program, such as a subshell. See also main program.<br />(3) In FORTRAN, a programme unit that has a FUNCTION, SUBROUTINE, or BLOCK DATA statement as its first statement.<br />(4) In the IPA Link version of the Inline Report listing section, an equivalent term for 'function'.
Industry:Software
(1) A capture of compressed internal information that is collected when an SQL or XQuery statement is explained. This information is required by the Visual Explain tool. See also performance snapshot.<br />(2) A collection of information that is compressed when an SQL or XQuery statement is explained.
Industry:Software
(1) A catalogue entry that describes the data component of a cluster, alternate index, page spaces, or catalog. A data entry contains the data component's attributes, allocation and extent information, and statistics. A data entry for a cluster's or catalog's data component can also contain the data component's passwords and protection attributes.<br />(2) Part of a coupling facility list structure list entry that is used to hold user-specified data.
Industry:Software
(1) A categorization based on the attributes of an activity (for example, its estimated cardinality, estimated cost, or activity type). See also work action, work action set, work class set.<br />(2) A mechanism for grouping specific work together that must be associated with a common service policy or routing policy. Work classes group Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) or Web services from an application.
Industry:Software
(1) A categorization or grouping of object instances that share similar behaviours and characteristics.<br />(2) In query management, the substring following the query command name that specifies the type of query object to be processed.
Industry:Software
(1) A categorization or grouping of objects that share similar behaviours and circumstances.<br />(2) In OSI, a way of grouping things of the same type, such as by country, region, or application entity. A set of common object classes has been defined by the ISO/CCITT directory standards.<br />(3) A template that is used to define the attributes and methods of an object.
Industry:Software
(1) A category of similar resources that are defined in the RACF class descriptor table (CDT).<br />(2) A group of resources that have attributes, actions, and other characteristics in common.<br />(3) An attribute of a resource that is used to group resources according to the subsystem to which they belong and the purpose for which they are used.
Industry:Software
(1) A central point at which all inbound calls are handled by a group of individuals on a controlled sequential basis. Call centres are usually a front end to a business such as airline ticketing or mail order.<br />(2) A place staffed by users in the customer service representative access group, who can perform some functions on behalf of a customer. For example, they can update customer information, including the password; they can also update orders or place a new order.
Industry:Software
(1) A character or bit string with a length of zero.<br />(2) A string containing no element.
Industry:Software
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