- 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 contains continuous streams of bits such as PC files, documents, and other data stored in System i folders.<br />(2) A file containing a continuous stream of data. Stream files are well suited for storing strings of data such as the text of a document, images, audio, and video. The content and format of stream files are managed by the application rather than by the system.
Industry:Software
(1) A separately installable software module that adds function to an existing program, application, or interface.<br />(2) A dynamically loadable library that a DB2 database management system uses to carry out user-written actions that involve the database.
Industry:Software
(1) A file that contains one or more rules.<br />(2) An if-then statement composed of a set of textual statements or rules where the "if" is the condition of the rule and the "then" is the action. In a programming environment, each of these rules is evaluated sequentially, and each condition that evaluates to true is acted upon. See also decision table, if-then rule.
Industry:Software
(1) A sequence of bits or characters that identifies a user, program, device, or system to another user, program, device, or system. See also data name.<br />(2) In the C language, a sequence of letters, digits, and underscores used to identify a data object or function.<br />(3) In COBOL, a data name that is unique or is made unique by the correct combination of qualifiers, subscripts, or indexes.<br />(4) In the 3270 terminal services development tool, a field on a screen definition that uniquely identifies the state of the screen. Users can choose which fields will be identifiers when creating recognition profiles.<br />(5) The name of an item in a programme written in the Java language.<br />(6) One or more characters used to identify or name a data element and possibly to indicate certain properties of that data element.
Industry:Software
(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
