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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2007
Michael Paul Clarke, Ellenbrook, AU;
Michael Paul Clarke, Ellenbrook, AU;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and program product for shutting down a first instance of an application and starting up a second instance of the application. The first instance of the application has associated therewith at least one first instance support resource. The second instance of the application has associated therewith at least one second-instance support resource. The method includes starting up the at least one second-instance support resource; shutting down the first instance of the application after the at least one second-instance support resource has started up; and starting up the second instance of the application based on at least one condition from a set consisting of: when the at least one second-instance support resource is running, and when the first instance of the application has shut down to a selected degree.