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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2007
Filed:
May. 10, 2002
Joel Frank Farber, San Jose, CA (US);
Teresa Lynn Leamon, San Jose, CA (US);
David Ray Schwartz, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Bryan Frederick Smith, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Donald Allan Weil, San Jose, CA (US);
Joel Frank Farber, San Jose, CA (US);
Teresa Lynn Leamon, San Jose, CA (US);
David Ray Schwartz, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Bryan Frederick Smith, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Donald Allan Weil, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for recording and maintaining stored information system object relationship information. Information contained within a stored information system (including system catalogs, referential constraints, triggers, table hierarchies, column references, indexes, stored program packages, system catalogs, stored procedures, stored queries, log/trace files of dynamically executed code, etc.) are searched to identify dependency relationships between objects. This object relationship information is stored and maintained in an information base. Information within the information based may be organized based upon subsets of objects that support a common application, service, or capability. Object relationship data is used to facilitate stored information system administration activities such as generating/restoring from archives, physically/logically segmenting data objects, replicating data objects; optimizing the distribution of data in distributed data system; and estimating operational capacity.