Use of agents and control documents to update a database structure
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsWilliam M. Houston, James A. Martin, Jr., Eric J. Morin
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Abstract
A method and system for updating a database structure. The database structure includes a dynamically changing list of control documents. A control document specifies tasks to be performed on the database structure. An agent finds an approved control document on the list such as by looking into a view of control documents. Processing the approved control document includes causing an execution of at least one task on the approved control document. Execution of a such task includes updating of the database structure, and may be implemented by the agent that found the control document or by another agent called by the agent.
Claims19
A system comprising a processor and a computer readable memory unit coupled to the processor, said memory unit containing software that when executed by the processor implements a method for updating a database structure, said method comprising:
- generating a view of the database structure, said view of the database structure being a table that is not a table of the database structure, said view identifying a plurality of control documents, each control document of the plurality of control documents comprising a list of tasks to be performed by at least one agent assigned to said each control document;
- processing by a first agent a first control document of the plurality of control documents in the view, wherein processing the first control document includes causing executing at least one task on the first control document, wherein the first control document has an Approved status denoting that said first control document has been approved for having the at least one task on the first control document carried out, and wherein executing a task on the first control document includes updating the database structure, wherein executing a first task of the at least one task on the first control document includes updating a plurality of databases of the database structure.
A computer program product, comprising a computer usable storage medium having a computer readable program code stored therein, said computer readable program code containing instructions that when executed by a processor of a computer system implement a method for updating a database structure, said method comprising:
- generating a view of the database structure, said view of the database structure being a table that is not a table of the database structure, said view identifying a plurality of control documents, each control document of the plurality of control documents comprising a list of tasks to be performed by at least one agent assigned to said each control document;
- processing by a first agent a first control document of the plurality of control documents in the view, wherein processing the first control document includes causing executing at least one task on the first control document, wherein the first control document has an Approved status denoting that said first control document has been approved for having the at least one task on the first control document carried out, and wherein executing a task on the first control document includes updating the database structure, wherein executing a first task of the at least one task on the first control document includes updating a plurality of databases of the database structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.