Inventor

NICK JEFFREY M

US75 patents

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NICK JEFFREY M

IBM

Method and apparatus for enforcing capacity limitations in a logically partitioned system

Method, system and program products for managing central processing unit resources of a computing environment

Sysplex shared data coherency method

Multiple processor system having software for selecting shared cache entries of an associated castout class for transfer to a DASD with one I/O operation

Data processing system and method for providing notification in a central processor of state changes for shared data structure on external storage

Dynamically redistributing shareable resources of a computing environment to manage the workload of that environment

Method, system and program products for managing logical processors of a computing environment

Processing channel subsystem pending I/O work queues based on priorities

Method and apparatus for optimizing the handling of synchronous requests to a coupling facility in a sysplex configuration

In a multiprocessing system having a coupling facility, communicating messages between the processors and the coupling facility in either a synchronous operation or an asynchronous operation

Method and system for managing data and users of data in a data processing system

Integrity of data objects used to maintain state information for shared data at a local complex

Method and apparatus for expansion, contraction, and reapportionment of structured external storage structures

Coherence controls for store-multiple shared data coordinated by cache directory entries in a shared electronic storage

Software cache management of a shared electronic store in a supplex

Inter-partition message passing method, system and program product for managing workload in a partitioned processing environment

Communications between partitions within a logically partitioned computer

Method, system and program products for managing changed data of castout classes

Method and system for capturing and controlling access to information in a coupling facility

Authorization method for conditional command execution

Command execution system for using first and second commands to reserve and store second command related status information in memory portion respectively

Command quiesce function

Method and apparatus for implementing a shared message queue using a list structure

Method, system and program products for resolving potential deadlocks

Method for coordinating executing programs in a data processing system

Management of data objects used intain state information for shared data at a local complex

Method and system for locking a page of real storage using a virtual address

Method and system for reconfiguring a storage structure within a structure processing facility

Method, system and program products for managing groups of partitions of a computing environment

Method, system and program products for modifying coupling facility structures

Directed allocation of coupling facility structures

Clearing data objects used to maintain state information for shared data at a local complex when at least one message path to the local complex cannot be recovered

Controlling the state of duplexing of coupling facility structures

Controlling the state of duplexing of coupling facility structures

Managing the state of coupling facility structures, detecting by one or more systems coupled to the coupling facility, the suspended state of the duplexed command, detecting being independent of message exchange

System-managed duplexing of coupling facility structures

Synchronizing processing of commands invoked against duplexed coupling facility structures

Method, system and program products for copying coupling facility structures

Method, system and program products for copying coupling facility cache structures

Method, system and program products for browsing fully-associative collections of items

Apparatus for a high performance locking facility

Method and apparatus for conducting a high performance locking facility in a loosely coupled environment

High performance locking facility

Computer program means and device for conducting high performance locking facility in a loosely coupled environment

Apparatus and accompanying method for use in a sysplex environment for performing escalated isolation of a sysplex component in the event of a failure

Apparatus and method for list management in a coupled data processing system

Interdicting I/O and messaging operations from sending central processing complex to other central processing complexes and to I/O device in multi-system complex

Dynamically determining whether to process requests synchronously or asynchronously

FAIBISH SORIN

Virtual machines and cloud storage caching for cloud computing applications

EMC CORP

Governance of storage