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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2004
Filed:
May. 15, 2001
Curt L. Cotner, Gilroy, CA (US);
James W. Pickel, Gilroy, CA (US);
Julie A. Watts, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
System, method, and program product for managing transactions on a plurality of Database Management Systems residing on separate participant servers and a coordinator server. A single transaction proceeds by multiple steps across more then one of the plurality of Database Management Systems as participants. Savepoints are assigned to the participants across the Database Management System, with at least one savepoint within a multiple step transaction. The DBMS responds to application requests to rollback to savepoint by rolling back the transaction, across the Database Management System participants, to the savepoint Further disclosed is a program product that contains code, which, either as written on the medium, or as instantiated in RAM, or both, controls the operation of a distributed database management system.