Readiness checker for content object movement

• US 10,114,844 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2015
• Issued: 10/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kozina, Gerald E., Li, Yongliang, Madani, Masoud, Silva, George F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Truong, Dennis
• Application Number:
  US14/954,704
• Publication Number:
  US 20170154037A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,065 Days
• Field of Search: 707624, 707634, 707661, 707667, 707673
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/185 Hierarchical storage management [HSM] systems, e.g. file migration or policies thereof details of archiving G06F16/11
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/214 Database migration support
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor

Abstract

Provided are techniques for movement readiness checking. It is determined whether each content object in a set of content objects is ready for movement. For each content object in the set of content objects that is determined to be ready for movement, an associated movement readiness indicator is set to indicate that the content object is ready to be moved. Then, each content object in the set of content objects is moved that has the associated movement readiness indicator set to indicate that the content object is ready to be moved.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining, outside a movement time window, whether each content object in a set of content objects is ready for movement by checking whether each content object is on hold, wherein any content object that is on hold is not to be any of migrated, deleted, and archived;

for each content object in the set of content objects that is not on hold, setting, outside the movement time window, an associated indicator to indicate that the content object is ready for movement;

for each content object in the set of content objects that is on hold, resetting, outside the movement time window, the associated indicator to indicate that the content object is not ready for movement; and

moving, within the movement time window, each content object in the set of content objects that has the associated indicator set to indicate that the content object is ready for movement, wherein the movement time window is set to a period of time that allows completing movement of each content object in the set of content objects that has the associated indicator set.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to at least one of an update to the content object in the set of content objects and an update to metadata for the content object, resetting the associated indicator to indicate that the content object is not ready to be moved.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein each content object is further determined to be ready for movement based on whether the content object is currently involved in a transaction.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a Software as a Service (SaaS) is configured to perform method operations.

5. A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by at least one processor to perform:

determining, outside a movement time window, whether each content object in a set of content objects is ready for movement by checking whether each content object is on hold, wherein any content object that is on hold is not to be any of migrated, deleted, and archived;

for each content object in the set of content objects that is not on hold, setting outside the movement time window, an associated indicator to indicate that the content object is ready for movement;

for each content object in the set of content objects that is on hold, resetting outside the movement time window, the associated indicator to indicate that the content object is not ready for movement; and

moving, within the movement time window, each content object in the set of content objects that has the associated indicator set to indicate that the content object is ready for movement, wherein the movement time window is set to a period of time that allows completing movement of each content object in the set of content objects that has the associated indicator set.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the program code is executable by the at least one processor to perform:

in response to at least one of an update to the content object in the set of content objects and an update to metadata for the content object, resetting the associated indicator to indicate that the content object is not ready to be moved.

7. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein each content object is further determined to be ready for movement based on whether the content object is currently involved in a transaction.

8. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein a Software as a Service (SaaS) is configured to perform computer program product operations.

9. A computer system, comprising:

one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories and one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices; and

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, to perform;

determining, outside a movement time window, whether each content object in a set of content objects is ready for movement by checking whether each content object is on hold, wherein any content object that is on hold is not to be any of migrated, deleted, and archived;

for each content object in the set of content objects that is not on hold, setting outside the movement time window, an associated indicator to indicate that the content object is ready for movement;

for each content object in the set of content objects that is on hold, resetting outside the movement time window, the associated indicator to indicate that the content object is not ready for movement; and

moving, within the movement time window, each content object in the set of content objects that has the associated indicator set to indicate that the content object is ready for movement, wherein the movement time window is set to a period of time that allows completing movement of each content object in the set of content objects that has the associated indicator set.

10. The computer system of claim 9, wherein operations further comprise:

in response to at least one of an update to the content object in the set of content objects and an update to metadata for the content object, resetting the associated indicator to indicate that the content object is not ready to be moved.

11. The computer system of claim 9, wherein each content object is further determined to be ready for movement based on whether the content object is currently involved in a transaction.

12. The computer system of claim 9, wherein a Software as a Service (SaaS) is configured to perform system operations.