International Business Machines Corporation

Robert M Convery

Shanna Xu

Michael J Tunnicliffe

Andrew S Edwards

Martin R Holder

John Anthony Reeve

Martin Andrew Ross

Dominic John Storey

Trevor Clifford Dolby

Ashley Donald Harrison

Matthew C Bailey

Benjamin Graham Thompson

Jack Evans

A computer-implemented method for generating and updating a performance report for a system adapted to run a plurality of flows, which enables the performance data of individual running flows to be compared to flows with a similar function. This is achieved by linking each of the running flows to one of a plurality of templates which describes a function of a flow. Each template may have an associated performance summary generated for it, based on the performance data of the running flows linked to the template. A performance report can be generated from a plurality of the performance summaries. The performance report can then be updated by running a plurality of test flows on the spare capacity of the system, while obtaining test performance data from the test flows. The test performance data can be compared to performance data of running flows on the system linked to the template.

Generating and updating a performance report

Methods and systems are provided for client controlled transaction processing. The method may be carried out at a transaction server, and include: receiving a transaction request from a transaction initiator and allocating a transaction identifier to the transaction; receiving notification of the number of jobs to be completed in the transaction; maintaining a transaction status indicating the current status of the transaction; receiving job status updates from one or more participants processing the jobs included in the transaction and updating a transaction record reflecting the status of each of the jobs included in the transaction; updating the transaction status when required based on the job status updates of the jobs included in the transaction; and receiving and responding to transaction status polling to provide a current transaction status, where the transaction status polling originates from the transaction initiator and the participants processing the jobs.

Client controlled transaction processing involving a plurality of participants

Presented are concepts for configuring data communication with an application flow in an integration system, wherein various connection routes to an application flow may be offered to a client. By way of example, connection configuration information associated with an application flow may relate to a plurality of different connection routes that are available for the associated application flow. This connection configuration information may be dynamically maintained to reflect flow and connection route availability. When an application flow is requested by a client, the connection configuration information for that application flow may be provided to the client. This may enable the client to select a preferred route.

Communication with an application flow in an integration system

Systems and methods for building images used in software containers are disclosed. A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, at a host computer, plural commands defined in a build file; determining, by the host computer, one of the plural commands is indicated as a temporal layer; building, by the host computer, an image including respective layers corresponding to respective ones of the plural commands; deleting from the image, by the host computer, one of the respective layers corresponding to the one of the plural commands indicated as the temporal layer; and pushing, by the host computer, the image to a registry.

Temporal layers for container technologies

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Robert M Convery