Abstract: A method and apparatus for efficiently representing, maintaining and managing a project and enclosed lifecycles in a data processing system used to support a people-oriented work environment. An object-oriented language environment is utilized to represent projects, processes, states, transitions, users, roles, authorities, actors, members and activities as objects. Process, member, and authority objects inherit from project objects. State objects inherit from process objects. Transition objects inherit from state objects. Project and user objects inherit from actor objects.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a system memory controller having a control register in which a bit is reserved for Doze mode control. The Doze control bit is set by system software whenever it places any processor into Doze mode. Until this bit is set, there is no wake up signal issued nor any performance lost. Whenever this control bit is set, the memory controller sends a signal to the system arbiter that informs it to issue a "wake up signal" before issuing an address bus grant, in time to satisfy the processor wake up latency. In addition, if the system arbiter receives another address bus request within a predefined time window, the "wake up signal" is held active without adding to the bus grant latency. If maximum system performance is desired (all processors out of Doze mode), the system software resets the Doze mode control bit in the memory controller, which removes the signal to the system arbiter which controls the wake up signal and removes the added latency for granting the bus.

Abstract: A method for testing programming interfaces including application program interfaces and command line utilities. Each interface may be called from a loop instruction in a test instruction a number of times corresponding to a number of parameter sets which are needed to test each interface. The parameter sets are maintained in a separate data file and are retrieved for each call being made to an interface. One or more return value are included in the parameter set. The operating system generates one or more return values which are compared with the stored return value. A judgment is made based on the comparison of the stored return values and the programming interface-generated return value. When this comparison is not as expected, the return values are written to a file along with the parameter set which produced the unexpected comparison.