Patent Application Number: 2005326766
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What significant here is that it had an external control file that basically defined a static configuration. There was a command to (re)load the file, during which time it would prohibit other programs in the offering from accessing the configuration data. The data base that stored the data was crudely implemented in NetView global variables. This would appear to match a significant part (if not all) of claim 20.
Later implementations of the program (as AOC/MVS and then System Automation) improved the control file load to be delta based in 2000 (a dynamically calculated delta, not a precalculated one).
Problem is that the documentation for the SolutionPak has vanished from the web (if it was ever there), and the documentation from the later versions doesn't talk about how the config refresh works - they just say it is there.
I found an IBM Redbook from August 1996 that says in the abstract:
Given the complexity of multisystem environments, it is no longer possible to
effectively manage systems manually. Several practical examples are presented
to demonstrate how CICS, NetView, IBM SystemView Automated Operations
Control/MVS (AOC/MVS), AOC/MVS CICS Automation Feature, CICSPlex SM,
and the MVS Automatic Restart Manager (ARM) can be used to automate the
operation of CICS systems in an MVS environment.
I took a quick look at Chapters 6 & 7. I didn't see any specifics related to this. It may be, as you statued, that not all the functions are spelled out or I missed them.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg244424.pdf
Diane Willis