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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1998
Franklin Charles Breslau, Teaneck, NJ (US);
Paul Gregory Greenstein, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
John Ted Rodell, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems and computer program products for copying data between templates having data stored in fields. The field designations of the source and target template are read and compared and data is copied between fields having matching field designations. For example, each field in the target template with the same field name and field size as a field in the source template receives the data from the corresponding field of the first template. Non-matching fields are presented to a user to obtain instructions on how to complete the copying operation. The user may specify concatenation, splitting, or renaming/resizing to provide source data for the target template. Alternatively, the non-matching fields in the target template may be left empty or the user may manually enter data by using a clipboard function or keying in new data.