Identifier vs Jobname - What's the difference?
identifier | jobname |
Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.
* {{quote-book, year=2001, title=The Career Guide to the Horse Industry, author=Theodore A. Landers
, passage=The Identifier personally inspects each horse in each race by verifying the lip tattoo, body color, head and leg markings, scars, and chestnut (night eyes).
* {{quote-book, year=2004, title=Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track, author=John McEvoy
, passage=The foal papers are documents recording the horse's registration; no horse can start in any race unless his papers are in the hands of the track's identifier .
Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
* {{quote-book, year=2008, author=Ted Dunstone, Neil Yager, title=Biometric System and Data Analysis
, passage=Prehistoric artists used hand-prints in cave paintings, perhaps as as 'signature'. They might be considered the earliest example of a biometric identifier .}}
A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
(programming, operating systems) A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
(databases) A primary key.
(computing) The identifier assigned to a job by an operating system.
* 1973 , IBM technical disclosure bulletin: Volume 16, Issue 4 (page 1093)
* 2003 , Erdogan Madenci, Ibrahim Guven, Bahattin Kilic, Fatigue Life Prediction of Solder Joints in Electronic Packages with ANSYS (page 149)
As nouns the difference between identifier and jobname
is that identifier is someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of while jobname is (computing) the identifier assigned to a job by an operating system.identifier
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* idSee also
* ("identifier" on Wikipedia) ----jobname
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(en noun)- This command is used to stop (and subsequently to restart) a running task identified by its jobname .
- The user must use jobnames while performing this analysis; otherwise, this command will fail.