International Business Machines Corporation

Alan Clive Robinson

Andrew Wright

David J Harman

Brian Johnson

Roger G Lewis

Ian J Mitchell

Andy Wright

Phil R Lee

Julien Charles Horn

Embodiments of the invention relate to a method, system, and computer program product for validating a data structure, comprising: responsive to identifying a data structure in a first programming language, identifying an equivalent data structure in a second programming language; comparing a data definition of the data structure with a data definition of the equivalent data structure; determining an incompatibility between a compared data definition of the data structure and a compared data definition of the equivalent data structure; and responsive to determining an incompatibility, identifying a rule defining an action to be taken in order to correct the incompatibility.

Method for validating equivalent data structures

Avoiding failure repetition in data processing includes storing a sequence of circumstances leading up to a previous failure, monitoring circumstances in a current process, matching a sequence of circumstances in the current process to a stored sequence of circumstances, and applying rules to determine if the current process should proceed.

Failure repetition avoidance in data processing

A method in a multithreaded computing environment for capturing diagnostic data, the method comprising the steps of: in response to a determination that the computing environment is in a predetermined invalid state, a first thread recording diagnostic data for the computing environment, wherein the determination includes a verification that the invalid state corresponds to a state other than a transient state of the computing environment corresponding to a transition of the computing environment by a second thread from a first valid state to a second valid state. An apparatus and computer program element for providing such diagnostic data capture are also provided.

Diagnostic data capture in a computing environment

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Alan Clive Robinson