Sap Ag

Sterfan Kusterer

Bernhard Drittler

Sven Schwerin-Wenzel

Peter Bittner

Jürgen Heymann

Thorsten Vieth

In a computer system () that launches application services for predetermined roles, a service-to-role assignment is customized in a target table. The user inserts a CD-ROM with master and reference tables, and the system automatically provides the target table. The master table () stores a first assignment () of application services (S,-) to roles (RO), and stores a second assignment () of service attributes (SA), such as language or industry branch, of the application services (S). The reference table () stores reference attributes (REA) for each application service (S) in the master table. The service representations for each role (RO) are forwarded from the master table () into the target table () if service and reference attributes match.

Method, computer program product and article of manufacture for providing service-to-role assignment to launch application services in role-based computer system

The present invention discloses a method, computer program product and system for adjusting roles in a computer system () that launch application services (-) by a first user who is assigned to at least one role. A first role () calls a second role () by reference (). Both roles comprise representations of applications services () and (). When representations in the second role are modified, for example, application services are added (), a delta list () for the first reference is automatically created to conditionally prevent the first role () from referencing to at least some of the modified representations of the second role (). This is achieved by using a rule database () containing rules about application services that are mutually exclusive and checking for conflicts between the representations of the first role and modified, second role. A second user, e.g. a system administrator, can accept or reject automatically created delta entries () in the delta list ().

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Nussloch, Germany

Sterfan Kusterer