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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2009
Susan M. Kimmel, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Scott T. Marcotte, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Kershaw S. Mehta, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Geoffrey E. Miller, Highland, NY (US);
Mary NG, Davis, CA (US);
James M. Showalter, Endwell, NY (US);
Susan M. Kimmel, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Scott T. Marcotte, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Kershaw S. Mehta, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Geoffrey E. Miller, Highland, NY (US);
Mary Ng, Davis, CA (US);
James M. Showalter, Endwell, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method comprising, sending an instruction from a validator member of a sysplex to a second member of a sysplex to prevent operations that alter a sysplex namespace, determining whether the validator member of the sysplex is communicative with the second member of the sysplex and whether the members of the sysplex retain current sysplex status information, sending an instruction from the validator member to the second member to send a first namespace attribute data associated with the second member to the validator member responsive to determining that the validator member of the sysplex is communicative with the second member of the sysplex and the members of the sysplex retain current sysplex status information, determining whether the first namespace attribute data associated with the second member is consistent with a second namespace attribute data, and sending an instruction to correct the first namespace attribute data.