Patent ID: 11868371
Assignee: BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A method of configuring a railroad system adapted to retrieve and modify railroad data, comprising:
reading and parsing operations from a configuration file including one or more parameters, instructions, operations, or conditions related to database management;
collecting metrics to determine a number of partitions, tables, or jobs scheduled to be run or created;
initializing a modification to be made to the database based on the operations from the configuration file, wherein initializing the modification includes:
determining whether required file systems are accessible; and
initializing variables used in executing the modification in response to a determination that the required file systems are accessible;

indicating the status of one or more database entries for a particular user;
extracting requested data from the database based on a date range of the requested data, a member group of the requested data, or a tablespace of the requested data; and
generating a notification of an error based on failed configuration initialization.