International Business Machines Corporation

Ralph Thomas Jackson

James Arthur Fisher

Nedzad Taljanovic

Ronald Faye Hill, Jr

Bryan John Wright

Teresa Shen Swingler

Ashaki Ayanna Ricketts

Timothy Clyde Sample

Jeffrey Wayne Pilch

Thomas Holderness Daily

Kevin L Schwartz

Wazim Imrhan Reid

Jennifer C Somers

A dynamic web installer, in which a user selects components via an external input selector (e.g. a web page) and, based on those selections, generates a custom installer to include only the components requested by the user. The user can then retrieve this installer and perform the installation.

Dynamic web installer

A method for modifying a logical library configuration from a remote management application which reduces the number of separate UI display panels a user has to view, and also reduces the number of pages requested from the server. A single UI display panel displays a configuration of all logical libraries of a similar media type in the single display panel. The configuration of all logical libraries of a similar media type can be modified within a configuration range, wherein a modification of one logical library results in the display panel displaying the effects of the modification on other defined logical libraries. For each separate logical library, the single UI display panel displays its allocated number of drives, its allocated number of storage slots, and its allocated number of control ports. The validity of a selected configuration is checked by automatically adjusting the hardware allocation of other effected libraries whenever the configuration of one logical library is changed.

Method of modifying a logical library configuration from a remote management application

A method to coordinate requests submitted to a data storage and retrieval system from two or more operator input stations, whereby an initialization request comprising a requested operation is provided at a first time to the data storage and retrieval system. At that first time the method provides a current history of previously-submitted commands to perform the requested operation. The method also generates a request history token at that first time. The first history is displayed to the user. The user then determines if the current history includes the requested operation. If the first history does not include the requested operation, the user at a second time submits a command to perform the requested operation. The method generates at that second time a current history token, and determines if the current history token matches the request history token. If the current history token matches the request history token, then the method performs the requested operation.

Apparatus and method to coordinate requests provided to a data storage and retrieval system

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Tucson, AZ, United States of America

Ralph Thomas Jackson