International Business Machines Corporation

Piotr Beltowski

Wojciech M Kocjan

Rossella De Gaetano

David Warren Knapp, Jr

A method, computer program product, and apparatus for managing encrypted data are provided. A respective set of sectors in each page of the volume is selected for storing data based on a respective key in a number of keys responsive to receiving a request to store the data in the volume and an identification of the number of keys with which users are allowed to store the data in the volume. Selection of the respective set of sectors is a function of a value of the respective key and a number of available sectors within a page and the volume is much larger than the data. The data is encrypted using the respective key to form the encrypted data. The encrypted data is stored in the respective set of sectors in the page in the volume.

Data encryption management

A method, computer program product, and system for protection screen information is described. A method may comprise determining, via a computing device, if there is a screen protection rule, the screen protection rule based upon, at least in part, at least one of an application rule for protecting a portion of a screen region, and a process rule for protecting the portion of the screen region. The method may further comprise modifying, via the computing device, the portion of the screen region based upon, at least in part, at least one of the application rule, and the process rule.

Protecting screen information

A method of dynamically creating an OSGi bundle is provided, including determining a directory for creation of the OSGi bundle, a runtime environment, and an OSGi framework, determining a functionality and a data for the OSGi bundle based on the runtime environment and the OSGi framework, creating a JAR file of the OSGi bundle with the data and the functionality, creating a bundle manifest for the OSGi bundle accordingly, installing and starting the OSGi bundle; and using an activator of the OSGi bundle to any one of initialize services and perform any additional tasks. One of a main OSGi bundle and an application performs the determining, the creating, and the installing and starting. The main OSGi bundle and the application have logic that enables the determining of the functionality and the data offered by the OSGi bundle. An initialization of the services and a performance of the any additional tasks is dependent on the functionality and the data of the OSGi bundle. The main OSGi bundle includes an activator launched prior to the determining the directory. The activator of the main OSGi bundle performs the determining, the creating, and the installing and starting. The application installing and starting the OSGi bundle is framework dependent.

OSGi dynamic bundle generation at runtime

A method of verifying an update to a computer software application running on a machine in a network having a plurality of machines, the method including applying a selected one in a series of a plurality of patches for an application, determining if the application behaves correctly after installing the selected one in the series of patches by test running the application and by determining if a functionality of the application changes, gathering outputs from the determining, applying additional ones of the series of the plurality of patches for the application, rolling back the applied patches after a set of checks has been made to return said application to an original state, creating a results file from the gathered outputs, identifying an exact patch level required to correct a problem with the application, verifying that the identified exact patch does not cause a compatibility problem, and analyzing results files from multiple machines to determine possible patch levels that resolve issues and cause no new problems.

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Krakow, Poland

Piotr Beltowski