International Business Machines Corporation

Andrew J E Menadue

Natalie Sian Hogan

Thomas Van Der Veen

Raymond Jepson

Barry John Wood

An example operation may include one or more of identifying one or more blockchain members of a vehicle platoon placement group, receiving a request to perform a task from the blockchain members, creating a scheduled task date associated with the task, notifying the blockchain members of the scheduled task date, receiving task progress updates corresponding to the blockchain members, and storing the task progress updates in a blockchain.

Performing vehicle logistics in a blockchain

A method and system for self-managing an application program in a computing environment, is provided. One implementation involves spawning a primary application for execution in the computing environment; the primary application monitoring status of the primary application and the computing environment resources while executing; and upon detecting a first status threshold, the primary application spawning a secondary application in the computing environment, wherein the secondary application comprises a lower functionality version of the primary application, and the primary application terminating.

Method and system for autonomic application program spawning in a computing environment

A method and a system for unlocking a storage device that has become locked or cannot be unlocked are disclosed. A hint is generated from a key by removing bits and adding bits. A position of removed bits, a position of added bits, the number of removed bits and the number of added bits are stored and known securely. When the key cannot unlock a storage device corresponding to the key, the position of removed bits, the position of added bits, the number of removed bits (N) and the number of added bits are retrieved. Then, the added bits are removed in the hint. Each possible N bits are placed in the hint at the position of removed bits to generate 2possible keys. Then, each of 2possible key are tried to unlock the storage device.

SID management for access to encrypted drives

A method of recording diagnostic trace information is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided in which metadata corresponding to each of a set of events that are subject to tracing is stored, wherein the metadata indicates how useful each of the events is in determining a root cause of a failure. This metadata is used to vary an apportionment of a memory among the events. Diagnostic trace information is then stored within the memory according to the apportionment.

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Winchester, United Kingdom

Andrew J E Menadue