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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 measurement used by the z/OS XL C/C++ compiler for judging the size of a function. The number of ACUs that comprise a function is proportional to its size and complexity.
Industry:Software
A mechanism by which a process may be notified of, or affected by, an event occurring in the system. Examples of such events include hardware exceptions and specific actions by processes. POSIX signal is also used to refer to the event itself.
Industry:Software
A mechanism for assigning storage management subsystem (SMS) classes and storage groups to data sets. The storage administrator is responsible for establishing ACS routines appropriate for an installation's storage requirements.
Industry:Software
A mechanism for associating a person or entity to the appropriate user identities in various user registries throughout an enterprise. EIM provides application programming interfaces (APIs) for creating and managing these identity mapping relationships, as well as APIs that applications use to query this information.
Industry:Software
A mechanism for message authentication that uses cryptographic hash functions.
Industry:Software
A mechanism that allows an application program to manipulate a large object (LOB) value in the database system. An LOB locator is a simple token value that represents a single LOB value. An application program retrieves an LOB locator into a host variable and can then apply SQL functions to the associated LOB value using the locator.
Industry:Software
A mechanism that converts the incoming XML message into a Java object that the target command expects. A message mapper can be registered with the instance_name.xml configuration file and is uniquely by a message mapper ID. The XML message mapper uses the mappings defined in the mapping template file to convert the XML message into the corresponding Java command parameter.
Industry:Software
A member of the family of CICS workstation products that provide a standard set of functions for client/server computing. Each CICS client is designed to run on a particular operating system. Each can attach to a range of CICS server systems, and provides access to resources owned by the servers. See also external call interface, external presentation interface.
Industry:Software
A member of the Seascape product family of storage servers and attached storage devices (disk drive modules). The ESS provides for high-performance, fault-tolerant storage and management of enterprise data, providing access through multiple concurrent operating systems and communication protocols. High performance is provided by multiple symmetrical multiprocessors, integrated caching, RAID support for the disk drive modules, and disk access through a high-speed serial storage architecture (SSA) interface.
Industry:Software
A menu that opens as the result of some user action (usually clicking the right mouse button) and that contains choices appropriate for the selected object in its current context.
Industry:Software