International Business Machines Corporation

Wilhelm Mild

Pradeep Parameshwaran

Robert Vaupel

Guenter Vater

Omar-Qais Noorshams

Mariia Zrianina

Andreas Nauerz

Joerg Schmidbauer

Ingo Franzki

Ingolf Salm

Karsten Graul

Wenjia Zhang

A method, computer system, and a computer program product for an online group payment is provided. The present invention may include registering a first party using a virtual account service and initiating a joint deal with a merchant. The present invention may include publishing the joint deal. The present invention may include subscribing a second party to the joint deal. The present invention may include invoking a transfer of an approved fund from a second party account to a virtual account service account. The present invention may include in response to meeting a first threshold, executing the joint deal, wherein the executed joint deal includes, executing a merchant payment associated with the joint deal. The present invention may include in response to a cancelation of the joint deal, automatically rescinding the payment authorization from the second party.

Handling an online group payment

A method, computer program product, and system includes a processor(s) in a first computing environment obtaining, from a computer system in the first environment, a system message indicating an issue in the computer system. The processor(s) evaluate the message to determine details of the issue and determine recommended action(s) to remedy the issue. The processor(s) generate a notification comprising the action(s), which include calls to portions of the computer system and the notification comprises respective selection options to trigger the processor(s) to execute each of the one or more recommended actions in the first environment. The processor(s) transmit the notification to a computing node in a second computing environment to communicate to a computing device in that environment. The processor(s) receive a response indicating selection of a respective selection option. The processor(s) translate the option into a recommended action and issue calls in the recommended action to the computer system.

Dynamically accessing and configuring secured systems

The present invention discloses a system and method for automatic redirection of record-based data access to host files to multiple non-host file systems having non-record-based access comprising a redirector engine, a redirector server and at least one handler. The redirector engine, located on the host side, gets automatic control for each request of a host application (e.g., a read/write request), interprets a property list containing information on whether and how redirection for that request should be processed, makes a redirect decision based on information received from the property list, and establishes a communication with its assigned redirector server. The redirector server, located on a non-host system, handles communication with the redirector engine and the handler, performs data conversions if required and passes control to the handler assigned in the property list. The handler component converts the initial request into a request specific to the non-host file system, controls the execution of the request, and returns the result to the redirector engine. A main advantage of the present invention is that heterogeneous systems using different file systems can work on the same data store without any modification of the host applications themselves. A synchronization of data between the host system and non-host systems can be selected very easily by setting the appropriate parameter in the property list. The data can be stored in different file systems or data stores simultaneously. Finally, the host program is able to access data in different file system, in different encoding formats at the same time in real time.

Method for redirection of host data access to multiple non-host file systems or data stores

The present invention relates to method and system for accessing server resources from heterogeneous platforms which are distributed in a distributed application network. One aspect of the present invention is to generate a connecting mechanism, i.e. a connector between the relational data base and the non-relational data system which must be programmed as well, but which is&#x2014;once programmed&#x2014;independent of changes made to the application used on the client side during program maintenance. According to an advantageous aspect of the present invention this is achieved by programming so-called 'stored procedures' which access the non-relational data and which process them according to prior art relational data base technology in order to be accessed by JDBC, ODBC or CLI interface for e.g. from IBM DB2 relational database technology on the client side.

Access to server resources from heterogeneous platforms

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Wilhelm Mild