Holding specific versions of a document

• US 10,176,193 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2014
• Issued: 01/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Ning, Le, Khanh M., Li, Yong L., Richardt, Randal J., Truong, Phong K., Yaung, Alan T., Zou, Xian
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuddus, Daniel A
• Application Number:
  US14/312,531
• Publication Number:
  US 20150370792A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,660 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/122 using management policies backup systems G06F11/1446; file migration policies for HSM systems G06F16/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1873 Versioning file systems, temporal file systems, e.g. file system supporting different historic versions of files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2308 Concurrency control transaction processing G06F9/466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2365 Ensuring data consistency and integrity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

Provided are techniques for holding versions of a document. In response to adding a version of an item to a hold container, another version of the item is automatically added to the hold container based on a hold version policy type associated with the hold container.

Claims

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

providing a plurality of hold version policy types comprising;

a hold specific version type that places a specific version in a hold container and does not place other versions in the hold container, a hold specific version and newer versions type that places the specific version and the newer versions in the hold container and does not place older versions in the hold container, and a hold specific version and older versions type that places the specific version and the older versions in the hold container and does not place the newer versions in the hold container, wherein the plurality of hold version policy types are auto-binding policies that automatically bind any of the specific versions, the newer versions, and the older versions based on a selected hold version policy type;

creating a hold container with a hold version policy type selected from the hold version policy types;

in response to adding a version of an item to the hold container,

in response to the hold version policy type of the hold container being the hold the specific version and newer versions type, adding a newer version of the item to the hold container; and

in response to the hold version policy type of the hold container being the hold the specific version and older versions type, adding an older version of the item to the hold container; and

in response to receiving a delete operation for the item,

using the hold version policy type to determine which versions of the item are to be deleted; and

deleting the version and the determined versions.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the program code is executable by the at least one processor to perform:

associating the hold version policy type with the version of the item.

3. The computer program product of claim 2, wherein the associating is through a hold link table.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the versions of the item to be deleted include a newer version of the item.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the versions of the item to be deleted include an older version of the item.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the hold version policy type is a hold all versions type.

7. 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 operations, the operations comprising;

providing a plurality of hold version policy types comprising;

a hold specific version type that places a specific version in a hold container and does not place other versions in the hold container, a hold specific version and newer versions type that places the specific version and the newer versions in the hold container and does not place older versions in the hold container, and a hold specific version and older versions type that places the specific version and the older versions in the hold container and does not place the newer versions in the hold container, wherein the plurality of hold version policy types are auto-binding policies that automatically bind any of the specific versions, the newer versions, and the older versions based on a selected hold version policy type;

creating a hold container with a hold version policy type selected from the hold version policy types;

in response to adding a version of an item to the hold container,

in response to the hold version policy type of the hold container being the hold the specific version and newer versions type, adding a newer version of the item to the hold container; and

in response to the hold version policy type of the hold container being the hold the specific version and older versions type, adding an older version of the item to the hold container; and

in response to receiving a delete operation for the item,

using the hold version policy type to determine which versions of the item are to be deleted; and

deleting the version and the determined versions.

8. The computer system of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise:

associating the hold version policy type with the version of the item.

9. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the associating is through a hold link table.

10. The computer system of claim 7, wherein the versions of the item to be deleted include a newer version of the item.

11. The computer system of claim 7, wherein the versions of the item to be deleted include an older version of the item.

12. The computer system of claim 7, wherein the hold version policy type is a hold all versions type.