Patent ID: 7346910

Claim:
A command interface for a computer program stored on a computer readable medium for issuing commands for administration of the computer program and other computer programs which have been defined as a group of computer programs within a group of cooperating communication managers, the command interface providing a set of commands having the following parameters: a command target qualifier, wherein particular parameter values of the command target qualifier determine which group of cooperating communication managers and which communication managers of the group of cooperating communication managers to which the command should be targeted; and a scope definition, wherein particular parameter values of the scope definition are associatable with respective computer system resources of the computer program that are used in processing of data, and wherein a parameter value of the scope definition determines which of the respective computer system resources the command should be applied to by reference to their associated command target qualifier parameter values, wherein the set of commands includes a define command for defining a new computer system resource, wherein a scope definition parameter value specified in said define command is associated with said computer system resource in response to issuing the command and wherein the scope definition parameter value determines the scope of access and change rights for the computer system resource and determines whether the computer system resource should be stored in a shared access memory which is accessible by all cooperating communication managers in said group of cooperating communication managers or should be stored in unshared local memory of an individual cooperating communication manager indicated by said command target qualifier, and wherein the cooperating communication managers are queue managers, and wherein the computer program is a queue.