International Business Machines Corporation

Ute Twisselmann

Andrea Schmidt

A method of providing access to Business Applications (BA) executed on a data processing system, BAs offer their services interactively controlled by a multitude of BA panels. The individual panels, the sequence of the panels as they are displayed by the BA, and the activities required to launch a BA to display a succeeding panel are described. Describing the panels results in a directed graph modeling the spectrum of panel interactions with a BA called a User Interaction Graph (UIG). By analyzing the UIG Transaction Methods (TM) is generated. When called, the TM procedures are capable of autonomously executing and controlling the BAs by handling a sequence of BA panels. They autonomously fill the various BA panels with the correct input information, initiate the required activities for traversing through a certain panel sequence and return the output information gathered during its execution.

Methodology for generating accessing functions for programmed execution of panel-driven business applications

A method of providing access to Business Applications (BA) offering their services and interactively controlled by a multitude of BA panels, the BAs displaying succeeding BA panels dependent on user interactions, user specified data and the contents of any kind of data base the BA is operating on. The individual panels, the sequence of the panels as they are displayed by the BA and the activities required to launch a BA to display a succeeding panel results in a User Interaction Graph (UIB) modeling the spectrum of panel interactions with a BA. Analyzing the UIB generates Transaction Methods (TM) for autonomously executing and controlling a sequence of BA panels which, with the correct input information Passed over the TMs, initiate the required activities for traversing through a certain panel sequence and returning the output information gathered during its execution.

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Ute Twisselmann