Patents by Inventor Edward J. Veazey, Jr.

Edward J. Veazey, Jr. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for editing the contents of a DB.sub.2 table using an editproc manager
    Patent number: 5396623
    Abstract: A computer-executed method permits one or more of the following three functions to be performed on a DB2 data table: (1) dynamically altering (replacing) the EDITPROC parameter in the DB2 catalog definition of the DB2 data table, without the necessity of unloading the data from the table; (2) dynamically adding an EDITPROC to an existing DB2 data table whose DB2 catalog definitional information does not include an EDITPROC parameter; and (3) dynamically adding a column (field) to an existing DB2 data table that already includes an EDITPROC. The method does not make the assumption, made by IBM's DSNUTILB utility program, that the DBD records for a given database are untrustworthy and that all definitional information therefore must be verified. The method makes use of code to trick DB2 into bringing certain definitional information for the data table in question, including the DBD and OBD records, into memory from DASD (disk) storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: BMC Software Inc.
    Inventors: Annette B. McCall, Edward J. Veazey, Jr.