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International Business Machines
Industry: Computer
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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) In earlier Content Manager workflow and Enterprise Information Portal advanced workflow, any work activity that is active within a workflow.<br />(2) In the human task editor, the representation of a task. Staff members can browse all work items that they have the authority to claim.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to a process that has multiple active threads.<br />(2) Pertaining to concurrent operation of more than one path of execution within a computer.
Industry:Software
(1) An exchange between two programs that carries out an action or produces a result. An example is the entry of a customer's deposit and the update of the customer's balance. See also conversation, session.<br />(2) A unit of processing consisting of one or more application programs, affecting one or more objects, that is initiated by a single request.<br />(3) A specific set of input data that triggers a specific process or job. A transaction also can refer to a message destined for an application program.<br />(4) An atomic series of SQL statements that make up a logical unit of work. All of the data modifications made during a transaction are either committed together as a unit or rolled back as a unit. See also multisite update, unit of recovery, remote unit of work, transaction.
Industry:Software
(1) In Eclipse, a unit of organization used to group folders or packages. Projects are used for building, version management, sharing, and organizing resources.<br />(2) An object that contains configuration information, activities, and policies required to manage a development effort.<br />(3) An object that includes a database, documents, document types, requirements and their attributes, requirement types, requirement traceability, discussions, and user and group security.<br />(4) A container for resources.<br />(5) An organized collection used to group folders or packages. Projects are used for building, version management, sharing, and organizing resources related to a single work effort.<br />(6) A temporary endeavor undertaken to produce a unique product or service, within a specified scope.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to a program or a system that conducts a dialog with a terminal user, alternately receiving and transmitting data. See also transaction-oriented programming.<br />(2) Pertaining to an SNA conversation or a dialog between two programs.<br />(3) Pertaining to a communication model where two distributed applications exchange information in a dialog.
Industry:Software
(1) An exchange in which a central node acts as a high-speed switch to establish direct connections between pairs of attached nodes.<br />(2) A computer-driven, digital communications controller providing telephone communication between internal stations and external networks.
Industry:Software
(1) In hardware, a functional unit that converts small electronic signals to signals that control a device.<br />(2) The object handling a stimulus passed from a sender object. See also sender, receive.<br />(3) A defined role in WebSphere Commerce that receives inventory at the fulfillment center, tracks expected inventory records and ad hoc receipts for ordered products, and receives returned products as a result of customer returns. See also logistics manager.<br />(4) A component that accepts documents from external partners and from back end applications and stores them in a file system for the Document Manager to process. Specifically, it receives a document over a supported transport protocol, writes the document and metadata relating to the document to the shared file system, records any transport-specific data to the metadata file, and completes any transport-specific technical acknowledgment.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to a resource that is currently operational.<br />(2) Pertaining to a file, page, or program that is in main storage or memory, as opposed to a file, page, or program that must be retrieved from auxiliary storage.<br />(3) Pertaining to a node or device that is connected or is available for connection to another node or device.<br />(4) In cross-site mirroring, pertaining to the configuration state of a mirror copy that indicates geographic mirroring is being performed.
Industry:Software
(1) An existing type that is used to internally represent a distinct type.<br />(2) In the application development tools, a characteristic of i5/OS members that allows the user to select a subset of the members available in a CoOperative Development Environment/400 session. Source types include i5/OS members with a particular member type.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to a selection, choice, or condition that has two possible values.<br />(2) Pertaining to a system of numbers with a base of two. The binary digits are 0 and 1.<br />(3) In DB2 for i5/OS, pertaining to a data type indicating that the data is a binary number with a precision of 15 (halfword) or 31 (fullword) bits.
Industry:Software