Patent ID: 8719300

Claim:
A computer-implementable method for managing an integrated catalog facility (ICF) catalog, comprising: detecting contention over catalog resources, wherein the detecting is performed by a contention detection module, the contention detection module receiving information related to the contention and using the information related to the contention to generate a contention event; resolving the contention over catalog resources, wherein the resolving is performed by a contention resolution module, the contention resolution module receiving information related to the contention event from the contention detection module and using the information related to the contention event to perform a contention resolution operation; and reporting the detecting and the resolving of contention over catalog resources, wherein the reporting is performed by a contention reporting module, the contention reporting module reporting information related to the generation of contention events and the generation of contention resolutions; and wherein said detecting, resolving and reporting are performed during ICF catalog operations; the contention detection module receives the information related to the contention from a Resource Measurement Facility (RMF); wherein the catalog detection module is either deployable to a client computer from a server at a remote location or provided by a service provider to a customer on an on-demand basis.