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Service Request Block. A Service Request Block ( SRB) is a data structure of MVS/370 and successor versions of IBM mainframe operating systems employed mainly, but not exclusively, by the Start Input/Output interface. An SRB may be considered, in the abstract, to be a highly optimized Task Control Block (TCB), one which has few, if any ...
Tivoli Systems Inc. was founded in Austin, Texas in 1989 by Bob Fabbio [ 3] and quickly joined by Peter Valdes, Todd Smith and Steve Marcie; all were former IBM employees. [ 4] Bob Fabbio in an interview indicated the purpose was to provide systems management on systems from a diverse set of vendors while at IBM he had been directed to focus on ...
With the introduction of MVS/370 and successor systems, a whole new environment was introduced: the Service Request Block (SRB), which generally has a higher priority than any Task Control Block, and, indeed, which itself has two distinct priorities: a Global SRB (priority over all local address space SRBs and TCBs) and a Local SRB (priority over only the local address space TCBs); and MVS's ...
Tivoli Service Automation Manager. Tivoli Service Automation Manager is the Cloud management package from IBM in the Tivoli Software brand. Unofficial abbreviations are TSAM and TivSAM . As the product sheet [1] sells it: "IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager enables users to request, deploy, monitor and manage cloud computing services.
Web services architecture: the service provider sends a WSDL file to UDDI. The service requester contacts UDDI to find out who is the provider for the data it needs, and then it contacts the service provider using the SOAP protocol. The service provider validates the service request and sends structured data in an XML file, using the SOAP protocol.
In tandem, IBM has also pushed AI front and center, starting with IBM Watson and more recently a slew of AI services to support AI demand in the enterprise — this included the launch of Watsonx ...
A service desk is a primary IT function within the discipline of IT service management (ITSM) as defined by ITIL. It is intended to provide a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) to meet the communication needs of both users and IT staff, [ 7] and also to satisfy both Customer and IT Provider objectives. User refers to the actual user of the service ...
IBM confirmed reports from overnight that it is conducting layoffs, but wouldn’t provide details related to location, departments or number of employees involved. The company framed it in terms ...