- 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.
(1) A modifier that makes a name unique.<br />(2) Each component name in a qualified name other than the right-most name. For example, TREE and FRUIT are qualifiers in TREE.FRUIT.APPLE.<br />(3) A value that provides additional information about a class, association, indication, method, method parameter, instance, property, or reference.<br />(4) A simple element that gives another generic compound or simple element a specific meaning. Qualifiers are used in mapping single or multiple occurrences. A qualifier can also be used to denote the namespace used to interpret the second part of the name, usually referred to as the ID.<br />(5) When referring to a QMF object, the part of the name that identifies the owner or the location of an object. When referring to a TSO data set, any part of the name that is separated from the rest of the name by periods. For example, 'TCK', 'XYZ', and 'QUERY' are all qualifiers in the data set name 'TCK.XYZ.QUERY'.
Industry:Software
(1) A class that holds information belonging to a link between two objects.<br />(2) A model element that has both association and class properties. An association class can be seen as an association that also has class properties, or as a class that also has association properties.
Industry:Software
(1) A MODIFY lock that a DB2 subsystem was holding at the time of a subsystem failure. The lock is retained in the coupling facility lock structure across a DB2 for z/OS failure.<br />(2) A method for protecting transaction updates when a problem delays transaction recovery of the updates. The retained status is cleared when transaction recovery is completed.
Industry:Software
(1) A COBOL statement run only when the WITH DEBUGGING MODE clause is specified. Debugging lines can help determine the cause of an error.<br />(2) In COBOL, any line with a D in the indicator area of the line.
Industry:Software
(1) A name assigned by the system to a line, controller, or device that is connected to the system.<br />(2) The name under which an AFP resource object is stored, the first 2 characters of which indicate the resource type.<br />(3) An 11-byte unique name of a client-defined resource. A transaction is an example of an IMS resource name.
Industry:Software
(1) A code used to represent the operations of a computer.<br />(2) In RPG, a word or abbreviation, specified in the calculation specifications, that identifies an operation.
Industry:Software
(1) A name referring to an indefinitely great number.<br />(2) In decimal floating-point operations, a signed value that is mathematically greater in magnitude than any other decimal floating-point number. See also decimal floating-point number.
Industry:Software
(1) A code, representing the instructions of an instruction set, that is implemented in a part of storage that is not program-addressable.<br />(2) Stored microinstructions, not available to users, that perform certain functions. See also firmware.
Industry:Software
(1) A name server that gets its domain data from a primary name server by way of a zone transfer.<br />(2) A Domino server that can stand in for a Notes user's home server to ensure that the Notes Name Service is always available over TCP/IP.
Industry:Software
(1) A coded representation in which each bit, or group of bits, represents or corresponds to an item; for example, a configuration of bits in main storage in which each bit indicates whether a peripheral device or a storage block is available or in which each group of bits corresponds to one pixel of a display image.<br />(2) A pixmap with a depth of one bit plane.<br />(3) A representation of an image by an array of bits.
Industry:Software
