Cloning tables and lists while retaining the relationship between entry elements and their assigned identifiers
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorFred Poole
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Abstract
A method, according to one embodiment, includes obtaining a list having entries corresponding to components of a first system. Moreover, the method includes determining whether an entry is missing from the list, by inserting a pseudo entry to the list for each entry that is determined to be missing from the list, thereby creating an updated list. Once the updated list is created, the method includes sending the updated list to a second system, whereupon the pseudo entries are removed from the updated list. Removing the pseudo entries thereby creates a cloned list having the same identifiers as the entries in the list from the first system.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- obtaining a list having entries corresponding to components of a first system;
- determining whether an entry is missing from the list;
- inserting a pseudo entry to the list for each entry that is determined to be missing from the list thereby creating an updated list;
- sending the updated list to a second system;
- and
- removing the pseudo entries from the updated list, thereby creating a cloned list having same identifiers as the entries in the list from the first system.
A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code readable/executable by a processor to:
- obtain a list having entries corresponding to components of a first system;
- determine whether an entry is missing from the list;
- insert a pseudo entry to the list for each entry that is determined to be missing from the list thereby creating an updated list;
- send the updated list to a second system;
- and
- remove the pseudo entries from the updated list, thereby creating a cloned list having same identifiers as the entries in the list from the first system.
A system, comprising:
- a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor, the logic being adapted to:
- obtain a list having entries corresponding to components of a first system;
- determine whether an entry is missing from the list;
- insert a pseudo entry to the list for each entry that is determined to be missing from the list thereby creating an updated list;
- send the updated list to a second system;
- and
- remove the pseudo entries from the updated list, thereby creating a cloned list having same identifiers as the entries in the list from the first system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.