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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.
In LANs, a method for tying individual local area networks together through the medium access control (MAC) level. A transparent bridge stores the tables that contain MAC addresses so that frames seen by the bridge can be forwarded to another LAN if the tables indicate to do so.
Industry:Software
In CICS/VSE, An IBM licensed program order option used to tailor the object code of a program to user requirements.
Industry:Software
In DB2 Spatial Extender, a reference system that defines locations on a planar surface.
Industry:Software
In LANs, the forwarding of a frame from one LAN segment to another. The destination is specified by the medium access control (MAC) sublayer address encoded in the destination address field of the frame header.
Industry:Software
In CICS/VSE, An operation mode of the supervisor (generated with MODE=370) of a VSE system. Such a supervisor supports multiple virtual address spaces and requires a processor of the System/370 and /390 architecture.
Industry:Software
In DB2 Spatial Extender, a scalar function that translates existing data into data that can be understood in spatial terms. For example, a geocoder that is supplied by Spatial Extender translates United States addresses into instances of a spatial data type. Another geocoder might translate the identifier of a shelf in a warehouse into data that identifies the location of that shelf in the warehouse.
Industry:Software
In LANs, the IEEE 802.1 format for the transmission of medium access control (MAC) addresses for token-ring and Ethernet adapters. In canonical format, the least significant (rightmost) bit of each address byte is transmitted first. See also noncanonical address.
Industry:Software
In CICS/VSE, the set of programs that maintains, services, and organizes the system and private libraries.
Industry:Software
In DB2 Text Search and DB2 Net Search Extender, an absolute value of type DOUBLE between 0 and 1 that indicates how well a document meets the search criteria relative to the other found documents. The value indicates the number of matches found in the document in relation to the document's size.
Industry:Software
In LANs, the router that determines the route that the frame will follow.
Industry:Software
