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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 18, 1997
Richard Ferri, Ulster Park, NY (US);
Richard C. Russell, Red Hook, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A program product recorded on a computer readable medium in which the program product includes a method of performing a software operation on a target of one or more processors in a distributed processing system wherein another processor is designated as a server. The method includes running a configuration program on the server to condition the server to serve on the target, the software operation which includes resource creation and object definitions; testing entry conditions in the configuration program for determining if entry conditions are met to serve the software operation on the target; if the entry conditions are met, serving the software operation on the target; at the completion of the software operation, testing exit conditions in the configuration program for determining if the software operation on the target completed successfully; if the exit conditions are met, exiting the software operation; returning to the configuration program to serve a second software operation on the target; and repeating until all software operations are served on the target.