International Business Machines Corporation

Rulesh F Rebello

Gaurav Mehrotra

Sandeep R Patil

Abhinay Ravinder Nagpal

Kapish Kumar

Praveen R Sogalad

A system receives one or more messages including information related to one or more issues associated with a software application installed on a user device. In response to receiving the message, a processor in the system identifies a user context associated with the user device, wherein the user context comprises usage information related to the software application. The processor further analyzes the received information and the user context associated with the user device to determine one or more errors associated with the software application. One or more software updates that are available and associated with the one or more errors are determined. The system automatically installs one or more of the determined software updates on the user device. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for managing and installing one or more software updates in substantially the same manner as is described above.

Cognitive installation of software updates based on user context

Provided are techniques for selecting a first group of indexes to form a current generation of indexes, selecting indexes from the first group biased to indexes with higher fitness values from the current generation of indexes, forming sub-groups of indexes using the selected indexes, determining fitness values of each of the sub-groups based on the fitness value of each of the indexes, selecting a subset of the sub-groups; and placing the indexes in the selected sub-groups into a new generation of indexes.

Enhancing data store backup times

A method, computer program product, and system for rebalancing database table space in a hybrid storage environment of heterogeneous storage units used by a plurality of users to store associated extents. The storage units are ranked according to various performance characteristics such as IOPS rates and power consumption, and the users are ranked according to various characteristics such as whether they have subscribed to standard or premium storage subscriptions. Upon detection of a change in the relative ranking of the users or the storage units, the stored extents are mapped, characterized as standard or priority extents, and redistributed across the storage units if needed to provide higher ranked storage for priority extents and for higher ranked users.

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