International Business Machines Corporation

Li Jia Meng

Peng Hui Jiang

Meng Wang

Jun Su

Ge Song

Yuan Yuan Jia

Douglas J Cowie

Li Wei Wang

Shao Mei Ji

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system and computer program product for service retention in a computing environment. According to the method, a deprovision request for deprovisioning a target service instance provisioned in a computing environment is received. In response to the deprovision request, a retention policy associated with the target service instance is determined. The retention policy indicates an action to be applied on the target service instance. The action causes a resource usage level of the target service instance to reduce. Based on the retention policy, the target service instance is modified to obtain a retention service instance provisioned in the computing environment for use in restoration of the target service instance.

Service retention in a computing environment

In an embodiment of the present invention, a checkpoint is received, the checkpoint indicating at least one source position of unprocessed object(s) of a plurality of objects on at least one source shard in a database system. In response to detecting a shard change related to the checkpoint to the at least one source shard, the shard change resulting in that the at least one source shard is updated to at least one destination shard, a mapping view is generated for representing position change of the unprocessed object(s) related to the shard change. An updated checkpoint is determined for indicating the at least one destination position of the unprocessed object(s) of the plurality of objects on at least one destination shard in the database system based on the mapping view. With these embodiments, the checkpoint may be managed in a more effective way.

Checkpoint management in a database system

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