International Business Machines Corporation

Charles Robert McKelley, Jr

Jerry Walter Malcolm

Troy Gary Reish

Robert F Selby

Jeffrey Scott Sims

Wanda K Johnson

Lynn Christine Schneider Huddleston Virta

A data processing system for managing a plurality of objects within said data processing system, the distributed data processing system having an object oriented environment. A container object is created for holding objects and a plurality of objects is detected within the data processing system. A filter object is associated with the container object, wherein the filter object receives the plurality of objects within the data processing system and the filter object passes selected ones of the plurality of objects to the container object. The data processing system is periodically monitored to detect changes in the plurality of objects. The container object is automatically updated using the filter object to pass selected ones of the plurality of objects to the container object in response to monitoring the data processing system, wherein the container object is automatically updated.

Creation of manageable management collections using filters

The present invention is directed to a system and method for system problem determination in an information handling system. The present invention is a seamless collection of parts that provides users with the information needed to determine the source of a problem. After entering the problem determination system of the present invention, the user is presented with a variety of choices. The user chooses a particular problem determination tool. In response to the user's choice, a particular tool is then located, wherever it may exist in the system, and executed. All sources of problem determination information are made available to the user. The location of the information is irrelevant. Furthermore, because all problem determination tools are presented to the user in one, cohesive problem determination system, the problem determination system can reuse error and support information already available, thus eliminating costly maintenance and translation costs.

System and method for efficient problem determination in an information

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Charles Robert McKelley, Jr