International Business Machines Corporation

Lorin Ullmann

Christopher Andrew Peters

Craig M Lawton

Puthukode G Ramachandran

Vijay Kumar Aggarwal

John Patrick Whitfield

Julianne Yarsa

Jason Benfield

Oliver Yehung Hsu

Steven Michael French

Joseph J Kubik

Ching-Jye Chang

Rajeeta Lalji Shah

Cristi Nesbitt Ullmann

Rabindranath Dutta

John Conrad Sanchez

P G Ramachandran

Michael A Paolini

David B Kumhyr

Pamela Ann Nesbitt

Dwip N Banerjee

Allen Chester Wynn

Michael Pierre Carlson

Mark A Williams

Michael John Burr

Nancy Anne Schipon

David Werner Bachmann

Raymond Paul Pekowski

Jack Patern Yapi

Eric E Goodson

Uzi Hardoon

Viktors Berstis

Andrew Jason Lavery

Denise Bell

Amy D Travis

Michael Richard Cooper

Krishna Kishore Yellepeddy

Martin T Moore

Keiichi Yamamoto

Robyn Lee Focazio

Bethany Lyn Kessen

Wisam Mohammed

Conrad James Johnson

David Harvey Fritz

Jonathan Andrew Lewis

Mark Joseph Williams

Santiago D Ortega

James Michael Pavlovsky

Zakary Crapo

Elizabeth Vera Bagley

David Ross

Jesse B Overby, Iii

William Paul Hampel

A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) monitors tasks performed within the shared computing environment by an authorized user via an interface(s) of a computing system. The processor(s) determines that the authorized user is initiating a given task and queries a repository to determine if the repository comprises a runbook comprising guidance relevant to the given task. The processor(s) determines that the repository does not comprise the runbook and automatically initiates a device(s) to capture and cognitively analyze activities performed by the authorized user to complete the given task (e.g., an audio capture device and a screen recorder). The processor(s) determine that the authorized user has completed the given task and stop the capturing and generate the runbook from the captured activities.

Automated cognitive analysis and specialized skills capture

A system and method for assisting vehicle traffic. A first vehicle includes a recorder that obtains traffic and a first data communication device that communicates the traffic data. A second vehicle includes a second data communication device that receives the communicated traffic data and navigates based on the communicated traffic data. A server receives the video feed from the recorder of the first vehicle via the first communication device and provides the video feed to the second vehicle via the second communication device.

Look ahead auto dashcam (LADCAM) for improved GPS navigation

An adjustable keyboard is provided. The adjustable keyboard includes keys, a housing to house the keys and a control system. The housing includes modifiable material between at least first and second ones of the keys. The control system controls the modifiable material to modify a positional relationship between at least the first and second keys.

Adaptive keyboard

Near clones for a set of targeted computing systems are provided by determining a highest common denominator set of components among the computing systems, producing a pseudo-clone configuration definition, and realizing one or more pseudo-clone computing systems as partially configured backups for the targeted computing systems. Upon a planned failover, actual failure, or quarantine action on a targeted computing system, a difference configuration is determined to complete the provisioning of the pseudo-clone system to serve as a replacement system for the failed or quarantined system. Failure predictions can be used to implement the pseudo-clone just prior to an expected first failure of any of the targeted systems. The system can also interface to an on-demand provisioning management system to effect automated workflows to realize pseudo-clones and replacement systems automatically, as needed.

Creation of highly available pseudo-clone standby servers for rapid failover provisioning

A method for hybrid Discovery Library Adapter (DLA) book processing identifies a first logical group in a first DLA book, the first DLA book including a first set of objects constructed according to a Common Data Model (CDM) specification to represent a first set of corresponding instances of resources at a first time, the first logical group being a grouping of related subset of the first set of objects. A first value corresponding to the first logical group, and usable for ascertaining a difference between the first logical group and a second logical group in a second DLA book, is computed. A second value corresponding to the second logical group is computed and matched with the first value. If matched, a change in the first logical group as compared to the second logical group is identified and output to a DLA delta book.

Hybrid discovery library adapter book processing

A system for establishing and maintaining inventories of computing environment assets comprising one or more custom collector interfaces that detect movement of assets from one environment to another, and an inventory scanner which modifies inventories for each environment based on monitored asset movements. The present invention is of especial benefit to autonomic and on-demand computing architectures.

Identification of discrepancies in actual and expected inventories in computing environment having multiple provisioning orchestration server pool boundaries

An approach is provided in which a maintenance optimizer receives a policy change threshold that corresponds to a system. The maintenance optimizer monitors real-time condition data associated with the system, and determines whether the real-time condition data has reached the policy change threshold. If the real-time condition data has not reached the policy change threshold, the maintenance optimizer generates a maintenance operation notification based upon the real-time condition data according to a maintenance schedule policy. However, if the real-time condition data has reached the policy change threshold, the maintenance optimizer generates an alternate maintenance operation notification based upon the real-time condition data according to an alternate maintenance schedule policy.

Optimized maintenance schedules based on smart city maintenance profiles

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for installing software in a network data processing system. An event is detected in the network data processing system indicating that a software module is to be installed in a set of data processing systems in the network data processing system. A configuration of each data processing system in the set of data processing systems is discovered, and a set of instructions is created using a knowledge base of prior installations. The set of instructions is tailored for each data processing system in the set of data processing systems based on the configuration for the each data processing system in the set of data processing systems. The set of instructions for the software module to be installed is sent to the set of data processing systems.

Autonomic auto-configuration using prior installation configuration relationships

A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product is presented for management of a distributed data processing system on behalf of a plurality of management customers. The distributed data processing system is logically represented as a set of scopes, wherein a scope is a logical organization of network-related objects. Endpoint objects, system objects, and network objects are logically organized into a set of scopes that do not logically overlap. Each scope is uniquely assigned to a management customer. The distributed data processing system is managed as a set of logical networks in which a logical network contains a set of scopes and in which each logical network is uniquely assigned to a management customer. An administrative user may dynamically reconfigure the logical networks within the distributed data processing system while managing the logical networks for a set of customers.

Management of logical networks for multiple customers within a network management framework

A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product is presented for management of a distributed data processing system. Resources within the distributed data processing system are dynamically discovered, and the discovered resources are adaptively monitored using the network management framework. When the network management framework detects that certain components within the network management framework may have failed, new instances of these components are started. If duplicate components are later determined to be active concurrently, then a duplicate component is shutdown, thereby ensuring that at least one instance of these components is active at any given time. After certain failover events, a resource rediscovery process may occur, and a topology database containing previously stored information about discovered resources is resynchronized with resource information about rediscovered resources.

Method and system for a network management framework with redundant failover methodology

A method of selecting an operating system at a target device in communication with a server is provided. A network bootstrap program is initiated at the target device prior to executing an operating system at the target device. The target device sends a bootstrap list command from the target device to the server and receives an operating systems list of at least one operating system. A target operating system is then selected from the operating systems list.

Method and system for selecting an operating system at user login on a target device

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