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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsNorman J. Dauerer, Edward E. Kelley
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A database system and application for facilitating comparison of data between manufacturing lines or other business processes which are geographically separated or distributed includes a storage arrangement in which data from remote locations is shadowed and can be updated as necessary only from remote locations. The Intersite Line Comparison system (ILC) also controls the invoking of other applications in a manner which is transparent to the user and dynamically builds data comparisons in desired formats under user-friendly, menu-driven control. Automatic data conversion, including tables of equivalent groups of operations at different sites is provided to facilitate meaningful comparison of data from different sites.
A method of data retrieval from a virtual machine system including a distributed resource, said virtual machine system having a plurality of nodes, each said node including a plurality of applications and local storage for storing data items, said method comprising the steps of
A system for facilitating comparison of data from at least two data sources including
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