Dynamic enhancement of error condition handling and displayed error messages in computer operations

• US 6,269,460 B1
• Filed: 09/01/1998
• Issued: 07/31/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Snover, Jeffrey Phillip
• Primary Examiner(s): Iqbal, Nadeem
• Application Number:
  US09/145,087
• Time in Patent Office: 1,064 Days
• Field of Search: 714/48, 714/49, 714/4, 714/25, 714/26, 714/38, 714/45, 714/46, 714/47, 714/31, 714/37, 717/1, 717/4, 711/100, 711/104, 711/167, 711/171, 710/15
• US Class Current: 714/48
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0706 the processing taking place on a specific hardware platform or in a specific software environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0787 Storage of error reports, e.g. persistent data storage, storage using memory protection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/327 Alarm or error message display

Abstract

A system is provided enabling the dynamic modification of error condition handling procedures and/or error message modification triggered by any of the set of basic error messages which are developed with and inherent in applications being executed on computers or computer networks. The system comprises means for basic detecting and handling of a basic set of error conditions, together with means for providing, on at least one display terminal, error messages relative to the detecting and handling means. The system also includes means for providing dynamic modifications in the basic handling of said error conditions during computer or network operations, means for recording data representative of the dynamic modifications, means responsive to the basic error messages for activating the dynamic modification means and means responsive to the activating means for searching said recorded data and augmenting said error messages with additional information relative to said modifications.

Claims

1. In a computer managed data processing operations system, an enhanced error message system comprising:

means for basic detecting and handling of a basic set of error conditions,

means for providing error messages relative to said detecting and handling means,

means for providing dynamic modifications in the basic handling of said error conditions during said operations,

means for recording data representative of said dynamic modifications,

means responsive to said error messages for activating said dynamic modification means, and

means responsive to said activating means for searching said recorded data and augmenting said error messages with additional information relative to said modifications.

2. In computer managed communication network operations with user interactive access via a plurality of display terminals, an enhanced error message system comprising:

means for basic detecting and handling of a basic set of error conditions,

means for providing on at least one of said display terminals, error messages relative to said detecting and handling means,

means for providing dynamic modifications in the basic handling of said error conditions during said operations,

means for recording data representative of said dynamic modifications,

means responsive to said error messages for activating said dynamic modification means, and

means responsive to said activating means for searching said recorded data and augmenting said error messages with additional information relative to said modifications.

3. The computer managed network of claim 2 wherein said modifications are recorded in a scripted programming language.

4. The computer managed network of claim 3 wherein said scripted programming language is Perl.

5. In a computer managed data processing operations system, a method of providing enhanced error messages comprising:

detecting and handling of a basic set of error conditions,

providing error messages relative to said detecting and handling means,

enabling dynamic modifications in the basic handling of said error conditions during said operations,

recording data representative of said dynamic modifications,

activating said dynamic modifications responsive to said error messages, and

searching said recorded data responsive to said activating of modifications and augmenting said error messages with additional information relative to said modifications.

6. In computer managed communication network operations with user interactive access via a plurality of display terminals, a method of providing enhanced error messages comprising:

detecting and handling of a basic set of error conditions,

providing on at least one of said display terminals, error messages relative to said error conditions,

enabling dynamic modifications in the basic handling of said error conditions during said operations,

recording data representative of said dynamic modifications,

activating said dynamic modification means responsive to said error messages, and

searching said recorded data responsive to said activating of modifications and augmenting said error messages with additional information relative to said modifications.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein said modifications are recorded in a scripted programming language.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein said scripted programming language is Perl.

9. A computer program having program code included on a computer readable medium for providing enhanced error messages for computer managed data processing operations comprising:

means for basic detecting and handling of a basic set of error conditions,

means for providing a set of basic error messages respectively responsive to said basic set of error conditions including a library of routines for converting each of said set of basic error conditions respectively into a corresponding error message,

means for recording data augmenting said basic error messages, and

means responsive to the occurrence of an error message for searching for said recorded data and augmenting the error message with said recorded data.

10. The computer program of claim 9 wherein said recorded data is recorded in a scripted programming language.

11. A computer program having program code included on a computer readable medium for providing enhanced error messages for computer managed data processing operations comprising:

means for basic detecting and handling of a basic set of error conditions,

means for providing error messages relative to said detecting and handling means,

means for providing dynamic modifications in the basic handling of said error conditions during said operations,

means for recording data representative of said dynamic modifications,

means responsive to said error messages for activating said dynamic modification means, and

means responsive to said activating means for searching said recorded data and augmenting said error messages with additional information relative to said modifications.

12. A computer program having program code included on a computer readable medium for providing enhanced error messages for computer managed communication network operations with user interactive access via a plurality of display terminals, said program comprising:

means for basic detecting and handling of a basic set of error conditions,

means for providing on at least one of said display terminals, error messages relative to said detecting and handling means,

means for providing dynamic modifications in the basic handling of said error conditions during said operations,

means for recording data representative of said dynamic modifications,

means responsive to said error messages for activating said dynamic modification means, and

means responsive to said activating means for searching said recorded data and augmenting said error messages with additional information relative to said modifications.

13. The computer program of claim 12 wherein said modifications are recorded in a scripted programming language.

14. The computer program of claim 13 wherein said scripted programming language is Perl.

15. In a computer managed data processing operations system, an enhanced error message system comprising:

means for basic detecting and handling of a basic set of error conditions,

means responsive to said basic set of error conditions for providing a set of basic error messages including a library of routines for converting each of said set of basic error conditions respectively into a corresponding error message,

means for recording data in a scripted programming language augmenting said basic error messages, and

means responsive to the occurrence of an error message for searching for said recorded data and augmenting the error message with said recorded data.

16. In computer managed communication network operations with user interactive access via a plurality of display terminals, an enhanced error message system comprising:

means for basic detecting and handling of a basic set of error conditions,

means for providing on at least one of said display terminals, error messages including a library of routines for converting each of said set of basic error conditions respectively into a corresponding error message relative to said detecting and handling means,

means for providing dynamic modifications in the basic handling of said error conditions during said operations,

means for recording data representative of said dynamic modifications,

means responsive to said error messages for activating said dynamic modification means, and

means responsive to said activating means for searching said recorded data and augmenting said error messages with additional information relative to said modifications.

17. In computer managed data processing operations system, a method of providing enhanced error messages comprising:

detecting and handling a basic set of error conditions,

providing a set of basic error messages respectively responsive to said basic set of error conditions including a library of routines for converting each of said set of basic error conditions respectively into a corresponding error message,

recording, in a scripted programming language, data augmenting said basic error messages, and

searching for said recorded data responsive to the occurrence of an error message and augmenting the error message with said recorded data.

18. In computer managed communication network operations with user interactive access via a plurality of display terminals, a method of providing enhanced error messages comprising:

detecting and handling of a basic set of error conditions,

providing on at least one of said display terminals, error messages relative to said error conditions including using a library of routines for converting each of said set of basic error conditions respectively into a corresponding error message,

enabling dynamic modifications in the basic handling of said error conditions during said operations,

recording in a scripted programming language data representative of said dynamic modifications,

activating said dynamic modification means responsive to said error messages, and

searching said recorded data responsive to said activating of modifications and augmenting said error messages with additional information relative to said modifications.

19. A computer program having program code included on a computer readable medium for providing enhanced error messages for computer managed communication network operations with user interactive access via a plurality of display terminals, said program comprising:

means for basic detecting and handling of a basic set of error conditions,

means for providing on at least one of said display terminals, error messages including a library of routines for converting each of said set of basic error conditions respectively into a corresponding error message relative to said detecting and handling means,

means for providing dynamic modifications in the basic handling of said error conditions during said operations,

means for recording data representative of said dynamic modifications,

means responsive to said error messages for activating said dynamic modification means, and

means responsive to said activating means for searching said recorded data and augmenting said error messages with additional information relative to said modifications.