- 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 communications handle used by TCP/IP.<br />(2) An identifier that an application uses to uniquely identify an end point of communication. The user associates a protocol address with the socket by associating a socket address with the socket.<br />(3) A means for directing data to an application in a TCP/IP network using a unique identifier that is a combination of an IP address and a port number.<br />(4) In the Network Computing System (NCS), a port on a specific host; a communications end point that is accessible through a protocol family's addressing mechanism. A socket is identified by a socket address.<br />(5) A callable TCP/IP programming interface that TCP/IP network applications use to communicate with remote TCP/IP partners.
Industry:Software
(1) A particular occurrence or example of an organisation definition. For an organisation definition called Department, an example of an organisation unit would be Sales and Marketing.<br />(2) Primary component of an organization, providing a context for its management. organisation structure relates a parent unit to its subsidiaries in a hierarchy, and each unit is responsible for collections of other business components. See also business system.
Industry:Software
(1) A communications method in which information is organised into small, fixed-length cells that recur without regular or predictable time relationships. ATM incorporates network switches and negotiated service connections.<br />(2) A broadband technology for transmitting data over LANs or WANs that is based on relaying cells of fixed size. ATM provides any-to-any connectivity and nodes can transmit simultaneously.
Industry:Software
(1) A pattern of characters that is used to control the keeping, deleting, or testing of portions of another pattern of characters.<br />(2) A pattern of characters that is used to establish maximum permissions that can then be applied to individual access control list (ACL) entries.
Industry:Software
(1) A compiled collection of functions whose members can be referred to by an application programme at run time.<br />(2) A library that is loaded dynamically and used during execution time.
Industry:Software
(1) A pattern or template that is applied to an Internet Protocol (IP) address to specify which bits are significant and which bits are irrelevant.<br />(2) A pattern of bits or characters that controls the keeping, deleting, or testing of portions of another pattern of bits or characters.<br />(3) Data that is used to extract information that is stored in another location.
Industry:Software
(1) A component (SPACK or VPACK) that fits in the 9295 Multiple Digital Trunk Processor, or one of four XPACKs on the DTXA.<br />(2) To store data in a compact form in such a way that the original form can be recovered.
Industry:Software
(1) A pattern to help the user identify the location of keys on a keyboard, functions assigned to keys on a keyboard, or switches and lights on a control panel.<br />(2) An object used to create new objects of the same type. The newly created object has the same characteristics as the template.<br />(3) In REXX, a guide that allows strings to be parsed by words (delimited by blanks), by explicit matching of strings, or by specifying numeric positions.<br />(4) A family of C++ classes or functions with variable types.<br />(5) A DB2 utilities output data set descriptor that is used for dynamic allocation. A template is defined by the TEMPLATE utility control statement.<br />(6) In WebSphere Commerce, a predefined skeleton or pattern that determines how information displays on a Web page. The template defines characteristics such as the location and type of text and images, and background color.<br />(7) A model of a new Notes database. If it is a design template, it will update database design elements created from the template.<br />(8) A standard layout used in such system communications as e-mail, approval requests, and error messages.<br />(9) A HATS resource that describes the relatively static portion of the Web pages presented by the HATS application, including a banner and navigation area.
Industry:Software
(1) A component of a schedule that divides the timeline into named intervals, such as peak, off-peak, and no service.<br />(2) The symbol ".". The term dot is used for the same symbol when referring to a Web address or file extension. This character is named <period> in the portable character set. See also dot.
Industry:Software
(1) A permanent global variable defined by WebSphere Voice Response for use by state tables. Many system variables are loaded with values when the state table is initialized. Some values are taken from system parameters. See also input parameter, local variable.<br />(2) A user-defined keyword and value pair that can be used to test and track the status of network resources. System variables can be referred to wherever event-data substitution is allowed.
Industry:Software
