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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1995
Robert A Gilles, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Robert J Grafe, Austin, TX (US);
Robert D Jackson, Murphys, CA (US);
Roger A Reinsch, Cupertino, CA (US);
Richard R Sanders, Rochester, MN (US);
Jacob Slonim, Toronto, CA;
Melvin R Zimowski, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention provides transaction synchronization in the form of COMMIT processing in a distributed, heterogeneous database system wherein some resources are synchronized to a transaction by a single-phase commit procedures while other resources synchronize by multi-phase commit procedures. The invention invests an application requestor at an application site with authority to represent all single-phase commit resources in multi-phase commit processing.