公开(公告)号：GB2508922A

公开(公告)日：2014-06-18

申请号：GB201222706

申请日：2012-12-17

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BITTLES WILLIAM ,  COCKBURN GORDON ,  MCCARTHY TIMOTHY FINBAR ,  WHITE STEVEN ,  PARKES JON

IPC: H04Q1/14

Abstract: Controlling modification of storage area network (SAN) fabric cabling by physical locks, using control signals, generated in dependence on the processing of cable modification requests, which are adapted to control a physical lock associated with the SAN component so as to permit or prevent modification of SAN fabric cabling.

公开(公告)号：GB2502565A

公开(公告)日：2013-12-04

申请号：GB201209648

申请日：2012-05-31

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： GRANSHAW DAVID ,  MCGINNES DANIEL JAMES ,  BOND JONATHAN PETER ,  BITTLES WILLIAM

IPC: G06Q40/02 ,  G06Q10/00 ,  G06Q40/00

Abstract: A method for providing event-processing rules in an event-processing environment comprises providing at least one generalised event-processing rule to a customer 100; receiving customer input of rule customisation to produce a customised rule 102; and storing the customised rule in Polish notation for processing using stack-based processing 103. The method may also include receiving notification of an event for a customer; retrieving a customised rule relating to the customer; and processing the customised rule using stack-based processing. The method allows the business rules of multiple curtomers to be represented by a few general rules.

公开(公告)号：GB2515554A

公开(公告)日：2014-12-31

申请号：GB201311604

申请日：2013-06-28

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BITTLES WILLIAM ,  MCCARTHY TIMOTHY FINBAR ,  MARTIN ANDREW DAVID

IPC: G06F11/20

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of maintaining the operability of a network-connected data processing apparatus, that is coupled to a host computer, and handles operations on behalf of the host computer. The data processing system has first and second resources to provide redundancy. The host has a failover capability for responding to loss of availability of a first resource by performing failover to the second resource. The host in response to a request for failover from a first resource to a second resource, tests the availability of the second resource for handling operations on its behalf. In response to a positive determination of the availability of the second resource, initiating the failover to the second resource, and in response to a negative determination of the availability of the second resource, providing an indication of unavailability. The failover may be determined as part of a request to take a resource out of service to carry out a resource update.

公开(公告)号：GB2503477A

公开(公告)日：2014-01-01

申请号：GB201211447

申请日：2012-06-28

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BITTLES WILLIAM ,  GRANSHAW DAVID

IPC: G06F9/54

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product is provided for managing persistent messages in a messaging system of a message producer and remote message consumer that share a common message queue, the method comprising a message producer writing (302) a message into a shared memory location in a distributed file system and writing (304) an associated message reference into the message queue, said associated message reference pointing to the shared memory location; and on receiving notification of the message reference in the message queue, a message consumer reading the message reference from the queue and accessing the message in the common file system (308).