Abstract: In an arrangement of a mail terminal 1, an electronic mail system 2, a job control terminal 4, and a computer system 3, a user makes a proposal of a file operation via a mail by way of the mail terminal 1. The electronic mail system 2 stores therein the proposal mail, exchanges this proposal mail with the job control terminal 4, and furthermore distributes a file operation result to the respective mail terminals. The job control terminal 4 receives a mail from the electronic mail system 2, and interprets the proposal mail, thereby executing a conversion from a mail ID into a host ID, a judgement of an access authorization with respect to the designated file, and a production of an instruction to the computer process system 3. Furthermore, an execution host computer is selected by monitoring operation conditions of the host computers.

Abstract: A diaphragm for use with an electro-acoustic transducer includes a diaphragm portion, an edge portion and a supporting portion. The diaphragm portion is molded by a synthetic resin material, such as polypropylene or the like. The edge portion is molded integrally with the supporting portion by a thermoplastic synthetic resin material and provided at the outer peripheral side of the diaphragm portion. The edge portion is molded integrally with the diaphragm portion by dichromatic molding.

Abstract: Method and system for identifying history of console devices capable of rapidly analyzing and determining a factor of obstacle of a computer system due to misoperation of a console device in the computer system comprising at least one central processing unit including a computer, a main console device connected thereto and a plurality of sub-console devices for controlling the operation of the computer. History of the console devices as to which one of the sub-console devices command data has been issued from and/or which one of the sub-console devices command data has been sent to is examined to analyze and determine the factor of computer system obstacle.

Abstract: A control method and apparatus for dynamically switching a logical session in an information processing system having a network control system configuration in which a plurality of terminal devices are connected to a plurality of central processing units via at least one communication control processor.

Abstract: Job execution within a computer system having a plurality of host computers is handled over an electronic mail system having a terminal and server, by the use of job control processing interfacing between the computer system and the electronic mail system. Job mail comprises job offer paper mail, job execution result mail, job execution progress mail and job data mail. The electronic mail system 2 stores job mail, converts the format, etc., of the job mail, and manages the electronic mail. The job control terminal 4 converts the format, etc., of the job mail, generates commands to the computer system on interpreting the job mail, selects a host computer for executing based upon the running state and/or load, etc. of the host computers 42 of the computer system 3, generates job mail based upon execution results and execution progress from the computer system and exchanges mail between the electronic mail system and the computer system.

Abstract: A job execution prediction control method and apparatus in a computer system having a CPU. Information on processing amounts of a plurality of parallelly executed jobs is collected during execution of the respective jobs. Predicted execution end times of the respective jobs are calculated on the basis of the collected information. Subsequent processing speeds of the respective jobs are controlled on the basis of the predicted execution end times calculated for the respective jobs and target execution end times of the respective jobs.

Abstract: An automatic operation control system for controlling the automatic operation of a computer system, stores in a storage unit the status informations of hardware configuration and software configuration of a computer system, a running event of the operating system and application programs, and an operation event of the computer system, and supplies a procedure for an operation command to be executed in accordance with the configuration information and the occurred event.

Abstract: A job control terminal creates a unit configuration table indicating the configuration of units connected to each of a plurality of processors in a multi-processor system. The job control terminal also creates an operating state table indicating an operating state of each processor including a CPU using ratio, I/O using ratio, memory using ratio, response time, and so on. When the job control terminal receives electronic mail for requesting job execution from a user through an electronic mail terminal, the job control terminal selects a processor assigned to execute the requested job based on the unit configuration table and the operating state table. When it is determined from the states of the processors that the requested job cannot be executed, information indicating that the job is unacceptable is transmitted from the job control terminal to the electronic mail terminal.

Abstract: An operation monitoring and controlling apparatus for a computer system consisting of a central processing unit, input/output devices, terminals, and a service processor connected to the central processing unit, and including a supervising device for supervising the status of use of the input/output devices and the terminals; a first control device for putting the power supply of the central processing unit either in an on-state or in an off-state; a device for sending a data stream of operator commands, which an operator has inputted, to the service processor; and a second control device, to which a power-off instruction or a power-on instruction, which the operator has inputted is sent the second control device responding to a signal from the supervising device, generating a data stream of operator commands for starting an operating system running under the computer system, which is supplied to the service processor, at the same time generating a power-on signal, which is supplied to the first control devic

Abstract: A control apparatus for realizing remote operation control for a computer system is interposed between the Computer system and a master console for supervising data stream on a data transmission/reception signal line existing between the computer system and the master console. Occurrence of error in the computer system is messaged to a remote terminal through a public telecommunication line. Commands for the computer system can be inputted from the remote terminals.

Abstract: A mail-receive noticing system and method and provided for automatically notifying a destination terminal of a fact that an electronic mail reaches a host computer. A mail-sending terminal includes a mail-receiving notice instructing device for accepting a mail-receiving notice instruction of a sender on the sending terminal given depending upon urgency or importance level of the mail and an information sending device for sending mail-receiving notice instructing information generated based on the accepted mail-receiving notice instruction, together with a sending signal of an electronic mail to a host computer. The host computer includes a device for receiving the mail-receiving notice instructing information from a sending terminal and processing devices for generating a mail-receiving notice indication based on the received mail-receiving notice instructing information and sending the same to a receiving terminal.

Abstract: Fault monitoring/controlling apparatus and method for a data processing system comprises one or more computer systems, monitor and control apparatuses connected thereto for monitoring and controlling the associated computer systems and a single supervision/control system provided at a site remote from the computer systems. When abnormality taking place in the computer system is decided as a fault, report of the fault occurrence is automatically effectuated to the remotely located supervision/control system, which responds to the reception of the fault report and issues, if necessary, a command requesting additional supply of detailed fault information to the computer system suffering the fault. The additional fault information is comparatively collated with the fault information accumulated (precedents).

Abstract: In a computer network system in which a plurality of computer systems managed by different managers are connected, each computer system in the network system is provided with a group of tables for storing the characteristics of computer systems in the network system with which the site of that computer system is communicatable, the cumulative total of account information when that computer system requested the execution of jobs to another site, the cumulative total of account information when the site of that computer system executed jobs requested from another site, and the calculated value of the balance of accounts between the site of that computer system and each site in correspondence to each of sites in the network system and is also provided with a group of processing programs.

Abstract: A control method and apparatus for dynamically switching a logical session in an information processing system having a network control system configuration in which a plurality of terminal devices are connected to a plurality of processing units via at least one communication control processer.

Abstract: A virtual machine system has a processor operating as a base machine which includes a plurality of groups of registers, such as data registers, address registers and instruction address registers which are selected according to identification data identifying individual virtual machines. A respective group of registers is allotted to each virtual machine and to the virtual machine monitor in the system. A status register file is provided to effect selective access to a respective one of a plurality of status registers in the system in accordance with a virtual machine number. An interrupt processing portion is provided comparing the value of an interrupt mask level of the status word of a corresponding virtual machine with an externally generated interrupt level to control interrupt processing.

Abstract: In a virtual machine system having a bare machine including an execution control unit, a storage control unit and a main storage unit and having a hardware architecture of its own, for supporting at least one virtual machine which runs on the bare machine and has a different hardware architecture than the bare machine, microinstructions for executing the instructions of the virtual machine are stored in storage means, and, in dispatching, the microinstructions in the microprogram associated with the virtual machine selected to be run on the bare machine are sequentially fetched from the storage means and executed by the execution control unit.

Abstract: At an occurrence of an interrupt, each entry of the vector table of the vitrual machine monitor to be referenced by the hardware of the bare machine is loaded with an address of an interrupt processing program of the running virtual machine for an interrupt number associated with the entry. When the interrupt is allowed to be directly processed by the virtual machine, the virtual machine monitor is not activated, that is, the interrupt processing program of the vitual machine can immediately execute the necessary processing, which eliminates the overhead associated with the intervention of the virtual machine monitor. Moreover, the content of the system stack pointer is set to point to the stack of the running virtual machine. Consequently, the content of the registers to be saved for an interrupt processing are directly stored in the stack of the running virtual machine, and therefore the overhead caused because the stack of the virtual machine monitor is used is removed.

Abstract: A computer system as a processor which operates under control of an operating system stored in memory to execute programs in response to commands received from operator terminals. Power is supplied to the processor from a power control circuit, and a terminal status-monitoring circuit operating under its own power supply monitors the operational status of the operator terminals and causes power to be supplied to the processor from the power control circuit when any one of the operator terminals has been turned on. When all of the operator terminals have been turned off, a command is sent to the processor from the power control circuit to initiate termination processing after which power supply is removed from the processor.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for generating data for a skeleton pattern of a character and/or a painted character pattern are provided. A dot matrix pattern representative of a character pattern is stored in a memory and it is displayed on a display device, positions of a plurality of skeleton points for defining a skeleton line position of each of line segments on the displayed dot matrix pattern are specified on the display screen. Kinds of basic elements for the respective line segments are entered by an operator. Lines connecting the skeleton points of the respective line segments are superimposed on the dot matrix pattern as skeleton lines and they are displayed in a distinguishable form. A character outline pattern corresponding to the skeleton lines or a painted pattern thereof is generated based on the input skeleton point positions and the kinds of line segments.

Abstract: A loosely coupled multi-processor system including a plurality of terminals and corresponding processors. When a particular terminal tries to start a program, the corresponding processor sets the largest number of the terminals, which are serviceable, on the basis of the load status of the processors which are permanently watched by the OS (operating system) in a main memory. The processor compares this largest number with the number of terminals, which are in service at that time and when the number of the terminals, which are in service, is smaller than the largest number, processing by the terminal issuing a service demand begins. Alternatively, when the number of the terminals, which are in service, is equal to or greater than the largest number, the processor cannot treat the service demand from the terminal and reports this to a global processor.