Can your software fix itself?

[grandpa]

I've worked with IBM software on mid-range platforms, and I saw what I considered to be some neat stuff. So this news isn't all that surprising, that software has been developed that will heal itself, self correcting errors that can affect on online business. I wish Brett had this!

can recognize and solve IT problems, repairing Internet logjams or bringing systems back online after a power outage automatically

Story [redherring.com]

in the future, this kind of automation could push some software experts out of work

Right. When PC's became personal it was said that we were on the way to a paperless society. It could happen, after a few billion more printers are sold.

[victor]

IBM have literally decades of experiene in building mainframe software. A Z/OS software error log may, at the end of the day, have recorded a zillion component crashes, but they've all picked themselves up, dusted themselves down, and (at worst) restarted with a minor feature or two degraded. Probably no user even noticed the problems.

Now, that's the sort of systems software the web desparately needs. But it would make little difference if the average CGI script is tested as an afterthought. Quality needs to be built-in.

For an alternative approach from the same uni that spawned Google: Crash-only software:
[stanford.edu...]

[coopster]

IBM has done well in this area, I agree. What's truly amazing to me is that the Tivoli group is finally getting to this point ... I'm not as familiar with z/OS but I do know that IBM's iSeries (AS/400) has been "self-healing" for years too.