International Business Machines Corporation

Gengxin Zhu

Joseph Luzzi

Steven M Reps

Jerry L Gentry

John F Taylor

In a distributed computing environment, a method, system and program product for monitoring, from a client computer system the performance of an application program residing on a server computer system. A probe program residing at the client computer generates requests for the services of the application program and records transaction records based upon service responses therefrom. The requests and transaction record generation is controlled by a set of probe configuration information at the client computer. Transaction records are provided to a central repository whereat statistical information is pre-processed and inserted into statistics tables. A display system enables a computer user to interactively request and view a plurality of displays of data sets of the monitoring data. Each data set includes data elements which may be interactively indicated by the viewer to cause the retrieval and display of related data sets having data elements associated with those in the original display.

Client-based application availability

A method system and program product for facilitating the transfer of data between a requesting computer and data repository over a computer network is disclosed herein. An interface is provided over the network to a requesting computer from a front-end server computer via a network communication session. Via the interface the requesting computer generates requests to the data repository to access the data stored therein. Requests are passed via a temporary data link from the requesting computer to a software-based bridge element which is continuously logically coupled to the data repository. The bridge accesses the requested data from the repository and sends the requested data to the requesting computer system. The communication session between the front-end server and the requesting computer may be terminated upon the sending of the interface to permit the server to service further requests.

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