International Business Machines Corporation

Brian Richard Lucier

Michael J Branson

Gregory Richard Hintermeister

Steven Gene Halverson

George Francis DeStefano

Gregory Scott Hurlebaus

Andrew James Streit

Diane Elaine Olson

Patrick Michael Wildt

David Henry Sandifer

Ellen B Streifel

Ronald Joseph Haugen

Barbara A Ballard

Jeffrey D Waldbillig

Gary John Vanselow

The present invention generally is directed to a method, system and article of manufacture for managing software fixes for a software product in a computer system. The method comprises: for each of a plurality of software fixes for a corresponding software product, determining whether the corresponding software product is installed on the computer system; if the corresponding software product is installed, then determining whether the each one of the plurality of software fixes is installed in the computer system; and if the each one of the plurality of software fixes is installed, then setting a status value to reflect that the plurality of software fixes is installed.

Dynamically resolving fix groups for managing multiple releases of multiple products on multiple systems

An object oriented framework mechanism for distributing and managing operations of a network application defines classes and class relationships that provide for easily extending the framework to define new heterogeneous operations in a network application. Core functions of the framework mechanism support operation management functions, which may include status reporting, error recovery, scheduling, reexecution of previously-defined operations, persistence of operations, and sharing of operations between users. The framework mechanism provides extensible functions that are extended by a user to define a network application. A network application can thus be defined by a user that supports any or all of the above-mentioned operation management functions without explicitly providing these functions, because these functions are part of the core function of the framework mechanism.

Object oriented framework mechanism and method for distributing and managing heterogenous operations of a network application

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Brian Richard Lucier