Method for establishing current terminal addresses for system users processing distributed application programs in an SNA LU 6.2 network environment
USRE35448E · kind E · reissue
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 4, 1993 |
| Grant date | Feb 11, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 4, 2013 |
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- Technology area (CPC —)General
Abstract
A method is described which permits a user of an Intelligent Work Station (IWS) in an SNA type network in which communication with the host processor employs LU 6.2 advanced program to program protocols and in which the host processor does not assign a dedicated virtual machine to the user during the period the user is active on the system, to notify the system of the user's current terminal address so that distributed applications programs having component parts distributed at the host and the IWS may be executed. When resident counterpart programs of distributed applications are executed by assigning each LU 6.2 conversation to an idle virtual machines from a preestablished pool of virtual machines created by the host processor, rather than to a dedicated virtual machine, the prior art methods that are based on associating the current address of the user with the address of the dedicated virtual are no longer operable. The new method does not require the user to notify the system that the user's IWS is active, since the user may want to run programs that do nor involve the host processor and may not want to be distracted with communications from the host and other users. In accor…
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