International Business Machines Corporation

John William Sweitzer

David Mark Ogle

Douglas Andrew Wood

Eric Labadie

Christine M Draper

Robert Thomas Uthe

Amanda Elizabeth Chessell

Kathryn Heninger Britton

Abdolreza Salahshour

Jason Robert McGee

Christopher Creighton Mitchell

Samar Choudhary

Yi-hsiu Wei

Edward Charles Snible

Mohamad Reza Salahshoor

Brent Alan Miller

Kevin Spencer Barker

Shikha Srivastava

Carol Ann Jones

Peter James Brittenham

Elizabeth A Schreiber

Donald Francis Ferguson

Richard Adam King

Balachandar Rajaraman

Michael R McNally

Renganathan Sundararaman

Vijay Pandiarajan

Mark Douglas Weitzel

James R Thorpe

Joseph A Bohn

Douglas Robert Petty

Kaylee M Thomsen

Kamorudeen Larry Yusuf

John E Diller

Margaret M Hedstrom

Michael J McMahon

Carol J Persche

Timothy G Shortley

Ashwin B Manekar

James L Gay

David Louis Kaminsky

Shaw-Ben Shi

John Kenyon Gerken, Iii

Harm Sluiman

Nicholas David Butler

William Pettit Horn

Marcello Vitaletti

Jason Howard Cornpropst

Heather Marie Kreger

Aaron B Brown

Jinchao Hunag

A migration set list generator specifies a physical topology of a deployed software solution, wherein the software solution comprises software components and data associated with the software components, integrated into a single entity. The migration set list generator specifies at least one solution change to the deployed software solution to meet at least one business requirement and specifies at least one migration strategy for migrating the deployed software solution. The migration set list generator generates migration tasks for making the at least one solution change to the deployed software solution specified in the physical topology based on the at least one migration strategy and generates a recommended physical topology yielded for the software solution if the physical topology is updated according to the migration tasks.

Generating a customized set of tasks for migration of a deployed software solution

An apparatus and a method provide a solution for a computer system. The apparatus may include a package containing or referencing a plurality of software components of the solution and containing a solution definition defining in logical terms the topology requirements of the solution. The plurality of software components may be packaged as installable units which comprise a descriptor providing requirements of a target hosting environment for the software component and the software component to be installed. The solution definition of the package may include target hosting environments of the software components of a solution being defined in terms of requirements each software component has on its own target hosting environment and requirements the solution imposes on the target hosting environments.

Solution for a computer system

An autonomic computing system may include an autonomic manager and a knowledge source accessible by the autonomic manager and any other entities associated with the autonomic computing system. The knowledge source may include a service interface adapted for the autonomic manager to access the knowledge source. The knowledge source may also include a multiplicity of knowledge elements.

Scope and distribution of knowledge in an autonomic computing system

A method to match an autonomic manager with a manageable resource may include using a management style profile to match the autonomic manager with the manageable resource. The method may also include validating that the autonomic manager can manage the manageable resource using a defined management style of the autonomic manager.

Matching an autonomic manager with a manageable resource

A migration set list generator specifies a physical topology of a deployed software solution, wherein the software solution comprises software components and data associated with the software components integrated into a single entity. The migration set list generator specifies at least one solution change to the deployed software solution to meet at least one business requirement and specifies at least one migration strategy for migrating the deployed software solution. The migration set list generator generates migration tasks for making the at least one solution change to the deployed software solution specified in the physical topology based on the at least one migration strategy and generates a recommended physical topology yielded for the software solution if the physical topology is updated according to the migration tasks.

A method for facilitating in assessing transitional costs in business transformations using a computer-aided organizational design system is provided. The method comprises creating a first organization design model representative of the current organizational design state of an organization using a graphical tool. The method further comprises changing the first organization design model into a second organization design model representative of the organizational design state of the organization after the business transformation. The method further comprises generating a report identifying the transition cost factors and the transition cost of moving from the first organization design model to the second organization design model, wherein the transition cost is determined based on predetermined calculation algorithms or heuristics.

Organizational design approach to transition cost assessment for business transformation

Content aggregation is used to build administration consoles. Preferred embodiments enable providing a solution-based approach to information technology ('IT') administration, whereby content can be flexibly arranged to provide a content view that is adapted for the IT solution deployed in a particular IT environment. In preferred embodiments, portal technology is used for the aggregation framework, and portlets are used for creating content. Alternatively, other approaches such as struts and tiles may be used. Preferred embodiments deploy an administration console as a Web-accessible application, and this console consolidates the administration interfaces for an arbitrary set of management operations, including administration of an arbitrary collection of hardware and/or software resources. Roles/permissions may be used when rendering content for the console, thereby customizing a view to individual end users (or user groups).

Using content aggregation to build administration consoles

A method of configuring a software product comprises accessing a user model, the user model defining one or more user roles and one or more tasks, each task linked to a role, accessing a task to software function map, the map defining one or more software functions of the software product and one or more tasks, each software function linked to a task, and configuring the software product so that access to the software product according to a specific user role is via a user interface supporting the software functions linked to the specific role via the tasks.

Configuring a software product

A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for managing the evolution of a data model through the application of change statements. Each change statement comprises a change operator operable to perform change operations on the elements of a target data model. The change statements are appended to a data model change stack. Execution of the change statements stored in the data model change stack results in change operations being performed on the target data model. Each change statement is associated with a version ID and a timestamp which identify the scope of the data model version and time instance of the change.

Method of recording and backtracking business information model changes

Problems are resolved in a business process that includes application programs that run on an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure having IT components. A symptom is generated that identifies a problem in the business process. Selected application programs and/or IT components in the IT infrastructure that may cause the problem in the business process are identified, based on the symptom. A respective situation for a respective selected application program and/or IT component is obtained. The respective situation is one of a set of component-independent predefined situation categories that is associated with a respective selected application program and/or IT component. The respective situations provide the status of the selected application programs and/or IT components in a common situation format that includes the associated one of the component-independent predefined situation categories. The respective situations that are obtained are analyzed to identify at least one problem in the selected application programs and/or IT components that may cause the problem in the business process.

Resolving problems in a business process utilizing a situational representation of component status

The present invention is a method and an apparatus for detecting dependability vulnerabilities in production IT environments. In one embodiment, a method for detecting a dependability vulnerability in a production IT environment includes injecting a synthetic disturbance into the production IT environment and observing the response of the production IT environment to the synthetic disturbance.

Method and apparatus for detecting dependability vulnerabilities

Monitoring components of a system is provided by associating status of at least one component of the system with one of a set of component independent predefined situation categories to provide the status of the component in a common situation format that includes the associated component independent predefined situation category. Status of the system is analyzed based on the common situation format representation of the component status.

Methods, systems and computer program products for component monitoring/analysis utilizing a situational representation of component status

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