Desktop management of host applications

Details Desktop management of host applications Desktop management of host applications

1994-11-04

1997-10-21

Black, Thomas G.

395326, 395601, 395610, 395615, 395619, 395786, 395800, G06F 1730, G06F 300

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056806159

ABSTRACT:
A communication medium and method enabling the identification of manageable data produced on mainframe equipment, so that the data can be established in a Desktop Management Interface (DMI) database. In that manner, management applications residing on desktop equipment connected to the DMI nodes can manage a complex process which includes mainframe equipment. The medium is a "tag" comprising a structured field which is sent from the mainframe to a desktop machine containing a server agent for generating DMI commands from the tag to address the database. In one embodiment, an exit agent is provided to split tags out of a mainframe generated datastream and send them to the server agent. The technique is extended to include desktop nodes so that tags can be produced and sent to the server agent for the generation of DMI commands.

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