International Business Machines Corporation

Wesley McMillian Devine

Lap Thiet Huynh

Dinakaran B Joseph

Roy Frank Brabson

Constantinos Kassimis

Arthur James Stagg

David Anthony Herr

Andrew Hilliard Arrowood

Carroll Eugene Fulkerson, Jr

Patrick S O'Donnell

Alan George Packett

John L Brady

Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for providing transactional quality of service providing transaction service level information from an application requesting a data transmission transaction to a communication process executing on a data processing system. The transaction service level information is provided separate from the data for the data transmission transaction. A quality of service level associated with the data transmission transaction is determined based on the transaction service level information received from the application. Other embodiments also provide for establishing a quality of service level without reference to transaction data content while further embodiments provide for establishing a quality of service level for responses.

Methods, systems and computer program products for providing transactional quality of service

Methods, systems and computer program products provide for distributing workload between data processing systems executing an application which communicates over a network, by receiving a request for a connection to the application over the network, obtaining workload information for the data processing systems, obtaining network quality of service (QoS) information associated with communications over the network for the data processing systems and utilizing the workload information and the corresponding network quality of service information for the data processing systems so as to provide workload metrics. The requested connection to the application is distributed based on the generated workload metrics.

Methods, systems and computer program products for workload distribution based on end-to-end quality of service

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