International Business Machines Corporation

Thomas Schaeffner

William Reilly

Debra J Waite

Deirdre A Wessel

Joachim Lohmiller

Jan Nielsen

Dan Wingard

John J Roberts

Mark W Honeck

Siegfried F Sanders

Ed Cordell

Sue Merkle

Paul Noga, Jr

An embodiment of the invention provides a method for recording, managing and tracking changes to objects in a computer system. A master record is created for the computer system; and, a transactional record is created for an object in the computer system. The master record includes the current status of the object and the current status for all objects associated to the object. The transactional record is updated in the electronic database; and, the master record is updated when the transactional record is updated. The master record is linked to all of the transactional records of the objects associated to the object with the processor. The master record is updated with the processor when a transactional record of the objects associated to the object is updated or added.

Machine change history tracking process for ERP applications

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Laudenbach, Germany

Thomas Schaeffner