Appeal No. 1997-2865
Application 08/113,789
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1, 2 and 4 through 7. Claims 3 and 8 through
15 have been cancelled.
The invention relates to a method for providing a
common hardware system console interface for controlling a
number of different data processing systems.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for obtaining common operational con-
trol in a data processing system by providing a common opera-
tional control interface (user interface) at an operator
console utilized for controlling a plurality of control func-
tions for a plurality of diverse central processing complexes
(CPCs) at a computer installation, wherein underlying pro-
cesses are utilized in the CPCs to perform said plurality of
control functions for a console operator (user), each selected
CPC being the same as or diverse from any other CPC in the
computer installation, said method comprising the steps of:
storing a library of programmed tasks for the system
console tailored to different CPCs under control of the common
operational control interface at the system console, the
common operational interface including:
selecting by the console operator at least one of
said plurality of CPCs for performing one or more common
operational control functions,
displaying at the system console a plurality of
function indications, a function indication being associated
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