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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1998
Terry M Bleizeffer, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Nathan D Church, Seattle, WA (US);
Kathryn W Devine, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Virginia W Hughes, Jr, Hollister, CA (US);
Barbara J Kilburn, Saratoga, CA (US);
David E Shough, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corportion, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for compensating for deficiencies existing in programs to assist a user through installing a program. Polling the status of jobs requested by the user of a workstation is done so that the user may eventually be provided with status reports regarding the jobs being executed. The user can set parameters during loading of SMPE libraries, install, migrate, fallback, remigrate and update procedures for the program. An indication is provided to a user of a workstation as steps of a task have been completed by the user. The health of catalog and directory databases may be verified before a migrate procedure is performed. The user of the program can be informed regarding parameters whose default values have changed, which parameters are of particular concern to the specific user.