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  • Publication number: 20120233224
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for identifying inactive objects in an entity. The inactive objects may be purged from an entity to reduce the size of the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventor: Vijay Muthugadooru Gowdra
  • Publication number: 20120323852
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a partitioned database is stored in a plurality of logical or physical partitions on at least a logical or physical first data storage node, and a subset of a first partition among the plurality of logical partitions is configured as a virtual partition. An input indicating an allocation of a second physical data storage node to store the partitioned database is received. A second partition is configured on the second data storage node. In response to the input, the partitioned database is redistributed over the first and second data storage nodes by moving data within the virtual partition on the first partition to the second partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: IBM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Saurabh Jain, Neeraj S. Sharma
  • Publication number: 20120143823
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a partitioned database is stored in a plurality of logical or physical partitions on at least a logical or physical first data storage node, and a subset of a first partition among the plurality of logical partitions is configured as a virtual partition. An input indicating an allocation of a second physical data storage node to store the partitioned database is received. A second partition is configured on the second data storage node. In response to the input, the partitioned database is redistributed over the first and second data storage nodes by moving data within the virtual partition on the first partition to the second partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Saurabh Jain, Neeraj S. Sharma
  • Publication number: 20090019050
    Abstract: A calendar system includes a calendar requester client and a calendar owner client that couple to a calendar server via one or more networks therebetween. In one embodiment, when the calendar server denies a particular calendar requester access to the calendar owner's calendar, the calendar server transmits a denial notice to the calendar owner and allows the calendar owner to dynamically add the particular calendar requester to a list of approved requesters on the calendar server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph G. Baron, Frank Battaglia, Jerrold Martin Heyman, Michael Leonard Nelson, Andrew Geoffrey Tonkin
  • Publication number: 20090193062
    Abstract: When a VTOC and a VVDS are established for information used to access data sets of a volume, unused space remains in both structures. The data sets, VTOC and VVDS are stored on a recordable medium. For VSAM data sets, other, vital information about the data set is also stored in the VTOC; for non-VSAM data sets, vital information about the data set is also stored in the VVDS. If the VOTC entry of a non-VSAM data set becomes corrupted, the vital information in the VVDS may be used to access the stored data set. Similarly, If the VVDS entry of a VSAM data set becomes corrupted, the vital information in the VTOC may be used to access the stored data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: IBM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Philip R. Chauvet, David C. Reed, Michael R. Scott, Max D. Smith
  • Publication number: 20120036110
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and program product for automatically reviewing a mapping between information models. The method includes: receiving a mapping between an element in the first information model to an element in the second information model. Each element is associated with an element identifier and an element value, and the mapping signifies a relationship between the element in the first information model and the element in the second information model. The method further includes comparing the received mapping against one or more known indications of suspicious mappings to determine if the received mapping resembles one of the indications of suspicious mappings. If the received mapping is determined to be suspicious, identifying the received mapping as one that requires review.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Byrne, Achille Belly Fokoue-Nkoutche, Aditya Anand Kalyanpur, Kavitha Srinivas, Min Wang
  • Publication number: 20130013569
    Abstract: A method enables cluster-level backup and restore functionality of all Virtual Input/Output Server (VIOS) configuration data within a VIOS cluster and the data of a shared VIOS cluster database. The method comprises: performing, via a backup/restore utility of a VIOS partition, a cluster level backup, which creates a first VIOS cluster configuration backup file having configuration information about hardware, logical and virtual devices of each VIOS partition within a VIOS cluster and all cluster data from the shared VIOS database of the VIOS cluster; storing the VIOS cluster configuration backup file within a storage location; and responsive to receipt of a VIOS restore command at a VIOS partition: retrieving the configuration backup file from the storage location; restoring a configuration of the hardware, logical and virtual devices of each VIOS within the VIOS cluster to prior state; and restoring the shared VIOS database with the backed-up cluster data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: James A. Pafumi, Chintamani P. Siddeshwar, Rupesh Kumar Thota, Vasu Vallabhaneni
  • Publication number: 20120303594
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product utilizes cluster-awareness to effectively support a live partition mobility (LPM) event and provide recovery from node failure within a Virtual Input/Output (I/O) Server (VIOS) cluster. An LPM utility creates a monitoring thread on a first VIOS on initiation of a corresponding LPM event. The monitoring thread tracks a status of an LPM and records status information in the mobility table of a database. The LPM utility creates other monitoring threads on other VIOSes running on the (same) source server. If the first VIOS VIOS sustains one of multiple failures, the LPM utility provides notification to other functioning nodes/VIOSes. The LPM utility enables a functioning monitoring thread to update the LPM status. In particular, a last monitoring thread may perform cleanup/update operations within the database based on an indication that there are nodes on the first server that are in failed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: IBM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Greg R. Mewhinney, David Nevarez, James A. Pafumi, Jacob J. Rosales