International Business Machines Corporation

Javed Iqbal Abdul

Jose Peter

Nisanth M Simon

Method, computer program product, and system for dynamic tracing, including monitoring a log file, wherein the log file comprises events, wherein an event comprises an event code and an event time stamp, receiving a ranking and rating table ('table'), wherein the table comprises one or more error codes and a ranking for each of the one or more error codes, matching the event code with an error code of the one or more error codes, calculating a rating for the error code, comparing the calculated rating to a rating threshold, enabling an information capture level based on the rating threshold of the calculated rating, in response to enabling the information capture level, copying events from the log file into an abbreviated log file, wherein the copied events include the error code for the calculated rating, creating an alert indicating a changed information capture level, and resetting the dynamic tracing.

Dynamic tracing using ranking and rating

The present invention provides a method and system for securely transferring data over a computer network. A first party's computer: parses vulnerable words and numbers of a data set providing information for a second party, generates masked values of the parsed vulnerable words and numbers, updates the data set by replacing the vulnerable words and numbers with the masked values, and sends the updated data set to a third party for analysis, and for subsequent decoding, by the second party, of the masked values of the parsed vulnerable words and numbers. The first party's computer generates a first, second, third and fourth symbol of the masked values of a parsed word by: incrementing a first symbol of the parsed word by one, decrementing a second symbol of the parsed word by one, decrementing a second symbol of the parsed word by one, and inserting a predetermined marker symbol, respectively.

Securely transferring data over a computer network

The present invention provides a method, and associated computer system and computer program product, for masking selected vulnerable data portions of a data set transmitted over a network by parsing the vulnerable data, generating masked values for the vulnerable data including generating symbols of the masked values of a parsed word of the parsed vulnerable data, updating the data set to include the masked values, then sending the updated data set to a third party for analysis and for subsequent decoding of the masked values of the parsed vulnerable data. The symbols, used to represent basic sounds of a language, are contained in a set in a fixed order.

The present invention provides a method, and associated computer system and computer program product, for masking selected vulnerable data portions of a data set transmitted over a network by parsing the vulnerable data, generating masked values for the vulnerable data, updating the data set to include the masked values, then sending the updated data set to a third party for analysis.

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