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International Business Machines
行业: 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.
(1) In disk management, the 8-byte portion of the 520-byte disk sector used by the operating system for control and access information.<br />(2) The portion of a message that contains control information.<br />(3) System-defined control information that precedes user data.<br />(4) Text that is formatted to be in the top margin of printed pages in a document. See also footer.<br />(5) See include statement.
Industry:Software
(1) In disk storage, an addressable subdivision of a track used to record one block of a program or data.<br />(2) The smallest amount of information that can be written to or read from a disk or diskette during a single read or write operation.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to a clustered system that is reconfigured when node or daemon failures occur, so that workloads can be redistributed to the remaining nodes in the cluster. See also application tier.<br />(2) The ability of IT services to withstand all outages and continue providing processing capability according to some predefined service level. Covered outages include both planned events, such as maintenance and backups, and unplanned events, such as software failures, hardware failures, power failures, and disasters. See also high availability solution.
Industry:Software
(1) An entity that performs measurements to collect data pertaining to the performance, availability, reliability, or other attributes of applications or the systems on which the applications rely. These measurements can be compared to predefined thresholds. If a threshold is exceeded, administrators can be notified, or predefined automated responses can be performed.<br />(2) In a privacy management environment, an entity that checks PII-classified storage locations for attempts to submit data or retrieve data.<br />(3) In enterprise search, a user who has the authority to observe collection-level processes.<br />(4) A facility of the integration test client that listens for requests and responses that flow over the component wires or exports in the modules of a test configuration.<br />(5) In performance profiling, to collect data about an application from the running agents that are associated with that application.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to a device, file, or system that is accessed directly from a user's system, without the use of a communication line. See also remote.<br />(2) In OSI, pertaining to the node from which one views the rest of the network.<br />(3) Pertaining to information that is defined and used only in one subdivision of a computer program. See also global.<br />(4) In programming languages, pertaining to the relationship between a language object and a block such that the language object has a scope contained in that block.<br />(5) Pertaining to an element that is available only in its own process. See also global.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to a group of jobs to be run on a computer sequentially with the same program with little or no operator action. See also interactive.<br />(2) A group of records or data processing jobs brought together for processing or transmission.
Industry:Software
(1) In dynamic data exchange, the identifier for a source of data. For example, the top, left cell position in a spreadsheet is row 1, column 1. This cell's item is R1C1.<br />(2) The data in one line of an indexed field.<br />(3) An entity that has a part number or SKU. See also defining attribute.<br />(4) In Content Manager, generic term for an instance of an item type. For example, an item might be a folder, document, video, or image. See also semantic type.<br />(5) Generic term for the smallest unit of information that Information Integrator for Content administers. Each item has an identifier. For example, an item might be a folder or a document.<br />(6) In EGL, a named area of memory that contains a single value.<br />(7) In XQuery, a part of a sequence that is either an atomic value or a node. See also atomic value, node.
Industry:Software
(1) Pertaining to a member of a class that is accessible only to member functions and friends of that class.<br />(2) Property of a software entity that is visible only to other software entities which share the same owner. See also owner.
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) 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
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