International Business Machines Corporation

Philippe Lemble

Guy Menanteau

Alain Truchi

Stephen Pacchiano

Germain Sagols

A method for generating a new configuration of a program containing a plurality of modules and stored in a data processing system. A first table built in response to data entered by a user at a workstation contains the correspondence between each program function and an assigned user. A second table built in response to requests for creating or modifying specified functions indicates for each request, a request number, a description of the requested work, and the function assignee retrieved from the first table. Then, a message is sent to a function assignee that contains the request number and description of the requested work. A third table built in response to users starting the work requested contains for each request number, a status for the requested work. By reading the third table, a report of the status of the requests is prepared which helps the program administrator to prepare a new configuration of the program.

Method for facilitating the configuration of programs

In a system including electronic mail facilities made available to attached users, means are provided to enable user using any terminal connected to the system network to select a form among prestored document forms, fill said form in and then have said form mailed for approval by system users selected based on predefined and stored rules. The approval path is being permanently updated by the system. The system is made to filter access to the filled-in forms using prestored tables, and monitor the mailing and processing said filled-in forms for approval.

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