公开(公告)号：JP2002182934A

公开(公告)日：2002-06-28

申请号：JP2001301690

申请日：2001-09-28

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： KUBALA JEFFREY P ,  NICK JEFFREY M ,  PETER B YAKOMU

IPC: G06F9/46 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F15/177

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device to intensify capacity restriction imposed by a software license agreement in an information processing system separated into a plurality logical partitions. SOLUTION: A job load management program to be executed by partitions measures actual consumption of processor resources by the logical partitions for prescribed average time intervals of addition and compares the measured actual consumption with the maximum allowable consumption. If the actual consumption exceeds the maximum allowable consumption, the job load management program calculates a capping pattern and caps the actual consumption of the processor resources by the partitions based on the calculated capping pattern by mutually acting with a logical partition management program. Pseudo weights are further allocated to the partitions. The logical partition management program judges whether or not an allowable shared level of the processor resource is exceeded by adding the pseudo weights to all partition weights.

公开(公告)号：JP2001147824A

公开(公告)日：2001-05-29

申请号：JP2000290041

申请日：2000-09-25

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： KING GARY M ,  KUBALA JEFFREY P ,  NICK JEFFREY M ,  YOCOM PETER B

IPC: G06F9/46 ,  G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F15/16

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make well-balanced the work of a workload operating in logically divided system blocks by moving physical resources of the system without limiting the movement of the work even when it is necessary to guarantee that data necessary for the work are present at the destination of movement. SOLUTION: Logical blocks are constituted by using one or a plurality of logical processors. Afterwards, it is possible to dynamically adjust the constitution. This dynamic adjustment may be made to correspond to the workload of the logical blocks.

公开(公告)号：JP2001142858A

公开(公告)日：2001-05-25

申请号：JP2000290086

申请日：2000-09-25

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： CATHERINE K EILERT ,  KUBALA JEFFREY P ,  NICK JEFFREY M ,  YOCOM PETER B

IPC: G06F15/177 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F15/16

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manage the resources of a central processing unit(CPU) in a computer environment. SOLUTION: When it is necessary to control the assignment of CPU resources to the blocks of the computer environment, the assignment is dynamically controlled. This dynamic control is spread over at least two blocks of the computer environment. This control includes the change of processor weight related to the blocks.

公开(公告)号：JP2001142854A

公开(公告)日：2001-05-25

申请号：JP2000289884

申请日：2000-09-25

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： MAERGNER JUERGEN ,  MERITT ALLAN S ,  NICK JEFFREY M ,  WYMAN LESLIE W ,  YUDENFRIEND HARRY M

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F15/177

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manage asynchronous requests such as input/output requests inside a coprocessor in a computer environment. SOLUTION: The asynchronous requests are managed on the basis of priority related to the asynchronous requests. This management includes the selection of the asynchronous request to be processed while using a priority system, for example, and the application of a resource to the asynchronous request while using the priority system or the both.

公开(公告)号：JP2001134453A

公开(公告)日：2001-05-18

申请号：JP2000289973

申请日：2000-09-25

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： KUBALA JEFFREY P ,  NICK JEFFREY M ,  YOCOM PETER B

IPC: G06F9/46 ,  G06F9/30 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F12/08 ,  G06F15/16 ,  G06F15/177

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manage the group of the blocks of a computer environment. SOLUTION: The plural blocks of a computer environment are included in at least one group of a computer environment. Then, a sharable resource is assigned to the blocks of the group so as to be managed as a group.

公开(公告)号：BR9301142A

公开(公告)日：1993-10-05

申请号：BR9301142

申请日：1993-03-11

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： ELKO DAVID A ,  FREY JEFREY A ,  HELLFRICH AUREY A ,  NICK JEFFREY M ,  SWANSON MICHAEL D

IPC: G06F11/20 ,  G06F11/00 ,  G06F11/22 ,  G06F11/30 ,  G06F12/00 ,  G06F12/08 ,  G06F13/00

Abstract: Apparatus and method insuring that data objects used to maintain state information for shared data at a local central processing complex (CPC) is coherent with respect to state information maintained at a structured external storage facility (SES) over a link is valid. An error detector is attached to the CPC side of the link for detecting errors on the link, and, when an error is detected, setting a error state pending (ESP) latch to indicate that the link has failed and that the shared data in the local data object may be invalid because a message invalidating the data may not have been received by the CPC. In data processing operations, the ESP latch is interrogated by a central processor in the CPC to determine the health of the message path to the SES facility. A local cache vector reflecting the validity of the shared data in the local cache may then be interrogated to determine if the shared data in the local cache is valid. If a healthy path has continuously existed and the vector indicates that the local cache data is valid, the integrity of the data can be relied on.

公开(公告)号：CA2086692A1

公开(公告)日：1993-10-01

申请号：CA2086692

申请日：1993-01-05

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： ELKO DAVID A ,  FREY JEFFREY A ,  HELFFRICH AUDREY A ,  NICK JEFFREY M ,  SWANSON MICHAEL D

IPC: G06F11/20 ,  G06F11/00 ,  G06F11/22 ,  G06F11/30 ,  G06F12/00 ,  G06F12/08

Abstract: Apparatus and method insuring that data objects used to maintain state information for shared data at a local central processing complex (CPC) is coherent with respect to state information maintained at a structured external storage facility (SES) over a link is valid. An error detector is attached to the CPC side of the link for detecting errors on the link, and, when an error is detected, setting a error state pending (ESP) latch to indicate that the link has failed and that the shared data in the local data object may be invalid because a message invalidating the data may not have been received by the CPC. In data processing operations, the ESP latch is interrogated by a central processor in the CPC to determine the health of the message path to the SES facility. A local cache vector reflecting the validity of the shared data in the local cache may then be interrogated to determine if the shared data in the local cache is valid. If a healthy path has continuously existed and the vector indicates that the local cache data is valid, the integrity of the data can be relied on.

公开(公告)号：CA2086692C

公开(公告)日：1996-12-31

申请号：CA2086692

申请日：1993-01-05

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： ELKO DAVID A ,  FREY JEFFREY A ,  HELFFRICH AUDREY A ,  NICK JEFFREY M ,  SWANSON MICHAEL D

IPC: G06F11/20 ,  G06F11/00 ,  G06F11/22 ,  G06F11/30 ,  G06F12/00 ,  G06F12/08

Abstract: Apparatus and method insuring that data objects used to maintain state information for shared data at a local central processing complex (CPC) is coherent with respect to state information maintained at a structured external storage facility (SES) over a link is valid. An error detector is attached to the CPC side of the link for detecting errors on the link, and, when an error is detected, setting a error state pending (ESP) latch to indicate that the link has failed and that the shared data in the local data object may be invalid because a message invalidating the data may not have been received by the CPC. In data processing operations, the ESP latch is interrogated by a central processor in the CPC to determine the health of the message path to the SES facility. A local cache vector reflecting the validity of the shared data in the local cache may then be interrogated to determine if the shared data in the local cache is valid. If a healthy path has continuously existed and the vector indicates that the local cache data is valid, the integrity of the data can be relied on.

公开(公告)号：BR9301109A

公开(公告)日：1993-10-05

申请号：BR9301109

申请日：1993-03-09

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： ELKO DAVID A ,  HELLFRICH AUDREY A ,  ISENBERG JOHN F JR ,  MOORE BRIAN B ,  NICK JEFFREY M ,  SWANSON MICHAEL D ,  WILLIAMS JOSEPH A

IPC: G06F13/00 ,  G06F13/12 ,  G06F15/17 ,  G06F15/173

Abstract: A mechanism for communicating messages, each including a command and a response, in a network having central processing complexes (CPCs) and one or more coupling facilities. Each coupling facility has a central processor for executing instructions and a main storage. Messages are sent from a message control block in the main storage of the CPC sending the message, and the response to the message is received in a message response block of the CPC without an interrupt to the program being executed by the central processor of the CPC. Each message from a CPC to the coupling facility may include a command and an indicator bit which instructs the coupling facility to execute the command either in synchronism with or asynchronously to the execution of the sending processor. The coupling facility executes the command and returns a response which is received in a message response block of the main storage of the sending CPC without an interrupt to any program being executed by the central processor of that CPC.

公开(公告)号：AT460703T

公开(公告)日：2010-03-15

申请号：AT00308493

申请日：2000-09-27

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： KING GARY M ,  KUBALA JEFFREY P ,  NICK JEFFREY M ,  YOCOM PETER B

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F15/16

Abstract: The configuration of the logical processors of a logical partition is managed dynamically. A logical partition is initially configured with one or more logical processors. Thereafter, the configuration can be dynamically adjusted. This dynamic adjustment may be in response to workload of the logical partition.