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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2008
Guruduth Somasekhara Banavar, Pelham Manor, NY (US);
Vijay Krishnarao Naik, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Biplav Srivastava, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Guruduth Somasekhara Banavar, Pelham Manor, NY (US);
Vijay Krishnarao Naik, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Biplav Srivastava, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods, systems and computer program products for generating a change approval plan for a computing system. The computing system has at least one component and at least two user groups, and each user group has an approver. A request to change at least one said component is received. It is determined which components are affected by the change request. An initial set of approvals to be obtained from at least one of said approvers is determined based on dependencies of the affected components with other components, and based on the approvers required for each affected and dependent component. The initial set of approvals is rearranged into sub-groups such that components falling within each sub-group are dependent only upon components within a respective same group.