International Business Machines Corporation

Amanda Elizabeth Chessell

Graham Castree Charters

Martin Mulholland

David John Vines

John Anthony Beaven

Kathryn Sarah Warr

Vernon Maurice Green

Catherine Susan Griffin

Ian Robinson

Iain Stuart Caldwell Houston

Michael Friess

Gordon Douglas Hutchison

John William Sweitzer

Harald Clyde Smith

Kamorudeen Larry Yusuf

Dougal A Watt

Christopher Charles Winter

Jeffrey Blight

Robert James Lojek

Pete Stretton

Ivan Matthew Milman

David Mark Ogle

Charles Daniel Wolfson

John Kenyon Gerken, Iii

Abdolreza Salahshour

Harm Sluiman

Fenglian Xu

Colin Leonard Bird

Dan Jeffrey Mandelstein

William Pettit Horn

Jason Howard Cornpropst

Heather Marie Kreger

Eric Labadie

Stephen James Cocks

Richard A Hopkins

Keith B Mantell

Fazleabbas Kanji

Kate Shepherd

Helen Margaret Wylie

Giles J B Dring

Simen Svennebye

Larry Yusuf

William Thompson

Katheryn Sarah Warr

An approach for providing guidance and management of a data processing system. A processor stores at least one design pattern corresponding to a plurality of components of the data processing system. A processor generates a behavioral model of the data processing system based, at least in part, on the stored at least one design pattern. A processor monitors actual behavior of the data processing system. A processor compares the actual behavior of the data processing system to the behavioral model of the data processing system. A processor recommends a solution, based, at least in part, on the comparison.

Pattern based behavior model for system management

A method provides real world contexts to computer applications for outputting data describing one or more real world contexts. Components are identified in a computer application which implement instances of real world contexts and application components are updated so that a real world context instance is active during the execution by the application of a function for the real world context instance. Each real world context instance may have an instance identifier and is referenced by type of real world context.

Providing real world contexts to computer applications

Methods of generating a help files are presented including: accessing a user model, where the user model defines a number of objects and a number of relationships between the number of objects; selecting an object of the user model; receiving a text file corresponding with the object; creating a component of the help file from the text file; selecting an additional object of the user model, the additional object having a relationship with the object, the relationship corresponding with the number of relationships; and creating an additional component of the help file corresponding with the additional object. In some embodiments, methods further include: detecting a change to the user model; and regenerating the help file to incorporate the change. In some embodiments, methods are presented where the additional component includes: a link to the additional object, and a link to a respective text file of the additional object.

Creation of a help file

Method and system are provided for updating data at a shared resource in a concurrent user environment. The method includes: a first client application carrying out the steps of: pulling data from a shared resource for update wherein the data includes a timestamp of a last update; requesting a lock on the data only allowing updates from the first client for a set period of time; working on the data whether or not a lock is in place for the first client application. Wherein when a first client application applies to update the data, a check is carried out to compare the timestamp of the data updated by the first client application with the current timestamp of the data, and if these do not match, the update fails.

Shared resource updating

A method, apparatus and software is disclosed for managing the generation of process events generated by a software process for supply to a process monitoring system, in which the generation of process events can be enabled or disabled on a group basis.

Method, apparatus and software for managing the generation of process events by a software process

A method, apparatus and computer program product, for generating a framework for supporting a homogeneous view of an information collection managed in a heterogeneous system of information storage sources. The framework includes an information collection data model mapped to an information source data model, and an information storage services data model mapped to the information source data model. The information collection data model defines information to be collected and stored as an information collection in one or more information storage sources. The information source data model references data sets containing the information defined in the information collection data model. The information storage services data model defines information storage services for accessing and performing operations on the one or more information storage sources storing the information collection. The framework allows a user to view and perform operations on the information collection without knowing how the information collection is stored.

Providing homogeneous views of information collections in heterogeneous information storage sources

A method and system for grouping events is provided in which a plurality of base groups () each define a set of event points. Combined groups () have a set of event points defined by the combination of the event points in combining groups. The combination may be by a union of groups or an exclusion of groups and may combine base groups () and/or combined groups () together. The method and system activate or deactivate groups to enable or disable the generation of events defined by the event points in a group. The generation of events may record event instances () of the event points for analysis, to provide an alert for an event instance of predetermined value, to trigger a further event or activity, or to publish the event instances for the event points.

Method and system for grouping events

A method, apparatus or software is disclosed for monitoring the performance that an application program receives from a runtime platform.

Method, apparatus and software for measuring the performance of a runtime platform in response to a process call from a software application

A method of configuring a software product comprises accessing a user model, the user model defining one or more user roles and one or more tasks, each task linked to a role, accessing a task to software function map, the map defining one or more software functions of the software product and one or more tasks, each software function linked to a task, and configuring the software product so that access to the software product according to a specific user role is via a user interface supporting the software functions linked to the specific role via the tasks.

Configuring a software product

A method and apparatus for integrating a software application into an information technology (IT) infrastructure. An inventory is created using a Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) approach from the Object Management Group (OMG). The inventory includes information about: each component of the IT infrastructure, the software application, how each component communicates with each other component, and how the software application communicates with each component. Each element of information in the inventory has a single source and owner. The inventory is used to analyze the IT infrastructure and the software application during integrating the software application. From contents of the inventory, using the MDA approach from the OMG, artifacts that execute the integration are generated, and test programs are generated to verify that the integration is complete and correct. The inventory is progressively updated during and after the integration as more information about the IT infrastructure or the software application is developed.

Integration of software into an existing information technology (IT) infrastructure

Event-generation metadata is used to control the run-time environment of a system implementing a component architecture. A service provider program () implementing a component architecture is provided with event-generation functions that are configurable by the metadata to generate and send events. The metadata can be implemented as properties of an EJB deployment descriptor associated with a program component () for configuring event generation functions of an EJB container (), to generate and send events to an events service (). The events can be used to monitor processing of an application.

Apparatus, methods and computer programs for monitoring processing in a data processing system or network

Disclosed are a method, computer program product and apparatus for integrating resource and coordinator components in a heterogeneous computer system. The technique disclosed involves the introduction of a negotiation phase into the resource enlistment or registration process wherein the resource component and coordinator component request and respond with indicators showing the quality of service that each supports, thus jointly establishing at runtime a quality of service to be supported for the resource and coordinator pairing. The qualities of service may include commit phase support and recovery support.

Method, apparatus and computer program product for integrating heterogeneous systems

The present invention provides a means of monitoring the progress of an IT implementation of a process or activity through a defined set of situation types and event objects corresponding to said situation types whereby, if the IT implementation of the process or activity is changed, provided the event objects corresponding to the defined situation types are still generated by the new IT implementation or are able to be derived from the new IT implementation through mapping and/or the instrumentation of new events, the monitor is able to receive or retrieve said event objects and thus perform its monitoring function. This has the advantage of de-coupling the monitor from the specific IT implementation of the process or activity and thus allows a generic monitoring solution to be provided.

Monitor for an information technology system

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Amanda Elizabeth Chessell