International Business Machines Corporation

Christopher James Pascoe

Richard Jay Cohen

Gregory Alan Wilson

Andrea L Snow-Weaver

Richard Allen Forsberg

Paul A Kallfelz, Jr

John Robert Meckstroth

A single sign-on (SSO) mechanism to enable a given user to access a target application on a target resource in a distributed computer enterprise. One or more configuration directives each identifying a given logon process and any associated methods required to access the target application on the target resource are stored in a preferably global-accessible database (CIM). For each of a set of users, a preferably global-accessible database (PKM) stores user-specific and application-specific information enabling the user to access and logon to one or more target resources. During a particular session, a logon coordinator (LC) mechanism coordinates given user information with the configuration directive to enable the given user to perform a given action with respect to the target application without specifying the given logon process and the application-specific information.

Coordinating user target logons in a single sign-on (SSO) environment

A method and apparatus for managing exceptions occurring during an execution of a plurality of objects in an object oriented environment. Under the present invention a message from an object is received in which the message requires processing by the plurality of objects. Error information is stored in a data structure in response to each occurrence of an error in each of the plurality of objects. This data structure is returned to the object.

Method and apparatus for managing exceptions

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Pflugerville, TX, United States of America

Christopher James Pascoe