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International Business Machines
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.
A device that reads, writes, or erases data on a storage medium.
Industry:Software
A communication device that controls transmission of data over lines in a network.
Industry:Software
A contention indication from the coupling facility that occurs when multiple lock names are hashed to the same indicator and when no real contention exists.
Industry:Software
A data structure that identifies a particular WebSphere MQ object. Included in the descriptor are the name of the object and the object type.
Industry:Software
A facility that detects and corrects a lost message condition if a network failure occurs.
Industry:Software
A communication link established between a product and a service provider. The product can use this link to place a call to IBM or to another service provider when it requires service. With access to the machine, service personnel can perform service tasks, such as viewing error and problem logs or initiating trace and dump retrievals. See also heartbeat.
Industry:Software
A context item that is a node. See also context item.
Industry:Software
A data structure that is used by the system monitor to store information about a particular aspect of the database system status. Monitor elements collect data for one or more logical data groups. Each monitor element collects one of the following specific types of data: counter, gauge, watermark, textual information, or timestamp. See also logical data group.
Industry:Software
A form of security checking that can be specified for the PERFORM, COLLECT, DISCARD, INQUIRE, and SET commands. Command security operates in addition to any transaction security or resource security specified for a transaction. For example if a terminal invokes a transaction that the user is authorised to use, and the transaction issues a command that the user is not authorised to use, the command fails with the NOTAUTH condition.
Industry:Software
A communication method for sending or receiving messages in a service interaction. Examples of interaction patterns include request/reply, one-way interaction, and publish/subscribe.
Industry:Software
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