International Business Machines Corporation

Globalfoundries Inc.

An Ding Chen

Timothy Gerard McNamara

Carl Alfred Bender

Doyle J McCoy

Scott L Chambers

In an approach for updating instructions of machine repairs to a user interface, a processor populates a quantity of machine components used to construct a machine model. A processor receives the machine model constructed from the quantity of machine components. A processor couples the machine model with a set of vital product data. A processor associates a set of instructions for a repair procedure with the machine model and the vital product data file. A processor generates a visual representation of the repair procedure specific to the machine model.

Hardware management and reconstruction using visual graphics

A method, computer program product, and system maintain virtual product data (VPD) in a computer system. The method includes a processor obtaining a first indicator, which may indicate a repair has commenced in a computer system or an initial program load has commenced in the computer system, accessing VPD related to the computer system, and duplicating the VPD to create a copy of the VPD. The processor stores the copy of the VPD in at least one computing element internal to the processor or accessible to the processor via a communications network. The processor obtains a second indicator that indicates that the initial program load is complete or that the repair process is complete, compares the VPD to the copy of the VPD, and determines whether to replace at least a portion of the VPD with at least a portion of the copy of the VPD.

Preserving virtual product data in a computer system

An approach to determine whether errors associated with transmitted data are associated with a transmitting device, a receiving device, and/or a connecting device that connects the transmitting device to the receiving device. The approach includes a method that includes receiving transmitted data with a buffer. The approach further includes analyzing the transmitted data which includes an error correcting process to detect errors and determine that the transmitted data has an error that requires additional analysis. The approach further includes determining that the error is associated with a receiving device, the transmitting device, or a connecting device that connects the receiving device and the transmitting device.

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