System and method for using a same program on a local system and a remote system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorRobert J. Purpura
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Abstract
A system and method implemented in a Customer Information Control System (CICS) Application configured to process information residing on remote systems and display such information on a local system, using a same program residing on both the remote system(s) and the local system. The method includes, for example, sending programming functions of a local system with a request for information to a remote system. The method further includes processing the programming functions of the local system with the request for information on the remote system to obtain updated information from the remote system. The updated information is sent to the local system for display.
Claims10
A method for processing a request by a user of a program executed in a first computer, the method comprising the steps of:
- the program initiating display of a first computer screen and another computer screen superimposed on the first computer screen and storing information in a first working storage area identifying a state of the first computer screen and information needed to back out of the other computer screen;
- the program receiving, by user entry to the first computer screen, a request of a type processed by the program, and in response, the program updating the first working storage area to indicate the request, and the first computer sending to a second computer a copy of contents of the first working storage area, the contents including the request, the state of the first computer screen and the information needed to back out of the other computer screen;
- the copy of the program in the second computer processing the request using contents of a second working storage area copied from the contents of the first working storage area sent by the first computer and updating the contents of the second working storage area with a result of the processing of the request;
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- the second computer sending to the first computer the contents of the updated second working storage;
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- the first computer updating the contents of the first working storage area with the contents of the updated second working storage sent by the second computer, and the program in the first computer initiating display of an updated computer screen based on the updated contents of the first working storage area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.