System and method for supporting detachable administration commands in a cloud platform environment

A method for supporting the use of detachable administration commands for use with a cloud computing environment, comprising:

• providing, at a computer, a cloud environment that supports provisioning of enterprise applications;
• providing a job manager service that provides an application program interface which receives administrative commands to be processed within the cloud environment as jobs, wherein each instance of the administrative commands is associated with a unique job identifier;
• and
• providing a command line interface that allows a user to
• issue a command to be processed within the cloud environment as a job,
• detach the command line interface from the job being processed, and
• subsequently reattach the command line interface to the job being processed by indicating the job's unique job identifier.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform the steps comprising:

• providing, at a computer, a cloud environment that supports provisioning of enterprise applications;
• providing a job manager service that provides an application program interface which receives administrative commands to be processed within the cloud environment as jobs, wherein each instance of the administrative commands is associated with a unique job identifier;
• and
• providing a command line interface that allows a user to
• issue a command to be processed within the cloud environment as a job,
• detach the command line interface from the job being processed, and
• subsequently reattach the command line interface to the job being processed by indicating the job's unique job identifier.