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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 function in which data is written concurrently to cache and nonvolatile storage, and automatically scheduled for destaging to DASD. Both copies are retained in the storage control until the data is completely written to the DASD, providing data integrity equivalent to writing directly to the DASD. Use of DASD fast write for system-managed data sets is controlled by storage class attributes to improve performance. See also cache fast write, dynamic cache management.
Industry:Software
A component of the CICS-DBCTL interface in the CICS address space. Also referred to in IMS publications as the adapter or the adapter/transformer. Its main responsibility is to communicate with the database resource adapter (DRA).
Industry:Software
A control privilege that allows all privileges for the owned data object.
Industry:Software
A database that is used to log transactions when a two-phase commit (SYNCPOINT TWOPHASE) is used with DB2 databases. In the event of transaction failure, the TM database information can be accessed to resynchronize databases involved in the failed transaction.
Industry:Software
A function key on terminals that, when pressed, causes an I/O interruption in the central processing unit.
Industry:Software
A component of the Common Event Infrastructure that receives events from event sources, completes and validates the events, and then sends events to the event server based on philtre criteria. See also Common Event Infrastructure, event server, event source.
Industry:Software
A control section that an assembler can use to format an area of storage without producing any object code.
Industry:Software
A database that lists database links and uses replication ID numbers to locate databases on various servers. For example, a corporate database library might contain databases that deal with corporate policies and procedures.
Industry:Software
A function name for which multiple functions exist within a function path or schema. Those within the same schema must have different signatures.
Industry:Software
A component of the Control centre for IMS that is used to issue IMSplex commands from both a workstation or multiple IMS systems.
Industry:Software
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