International Business Machines Corporation

Sandra Sheu Chang

Dikran S Meliksetian

Peng Ye

May Ngun Wone

Randy Yuan-Yi Tung

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for logically packaging and delivering a service offering. A set of service implementation artifacts, a service ordering process, and a service provisioning process are selected and configured to implement a service offering. A requirements specification for the set of service implementation artifacts is defined. Logical associations between parameters are defined such that a change of a parameter for a first component triggers a change for a parameter of a second component. Beneficially, such an apparatus, system, and method accelerates the self-service ordering and deployment of service offerings.

Apparatus, system, and method for logically packaging and delivering a service offering

A report generating and viewing method ( ) for generating and viewing reports ( ) over the internet ( ). A request from a browser ( ) is sent to a server ( ) whereupon a generate reports program ( ) in a server ( ) creates an intermediate file ( ) containing all the necessary data and metadata. When a request from the browser ( ) to view the report ( ) is sent, a view reports program ( ) in the server ( ) parses the intermediate file ( ) and sends a menu ( ) to the browser ( ). The user then selects a report from the menu ( ) and the server ( ) sends the report ( ) to the browser ( ).

Dynamically generated HTML formatted reports

In a computer-implemented process, a task requiring access to a database uses an object-oriented class to enable one database connection for the duration of the task, avoiding multiple and concurrent database connections, thus allowing a more efficient use of the database connection.

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