Patent ID: 7836453

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of tracking workloads of a computing environment, said method comprising: creating a workload definition corresponding to the customer defined workload to be tracked, the workload definition comprising a customer provided workload name and a customer provided identification of one or more lead transactions only for the customer defined workload, wherein each execution of each lead transaction employs a unique identification which is assigned and maintained by the computing environment in processing the customer defined workload; employing completed process records of the computing environment in tracking, using the customer provided workload name, the identification of the one or more lead transactions, and the unique identification, the customer defined workload after being processed by one or more systems of the computing environment; wherein the one or more lead transactions invoke one or more secondary transactions, the one or more secondary transactions inheriting the unique identification(s) of the one or more lead transactions; and wherein the creating comprises creating a plurality of workload definitions to be used in tracking a plurality of customer defined workloads, and wherein the tracking comprises separately tracking, using the plurality of workload definitions, the plurality of customer defined workloads and wherein at least some customer defined workloads share a transaction during the processing thereof by the computing environment.