International Business Machines Corporation

Kenneth Michael Kapulka

Jimmy Paul Strickland

Gerard Maclean Dearing

Marc Kenneth Duquette

Matthew J Kalos

Harry M Yudenfriend

Peter Grimm Sutton

Richard Anthony Ripberger

John Glenn Thompson

Wayne Erwin Rhoten

James B Cammarata

Jonathan Andrew Scott

Kelly Scott Carpenter

Ian Hulme Rose

Holly A Rader

Provided are a system and article of manufacture for providing an address format compatible with different addressing formats used for addressing different sized address spaces. An address format is used in an operating system to address storage space in a storage device comprising a first region and a second region of storage space. A first group of applications uses the address format to only address the storage space in the first region and is not coded to use the address format to access the second region and a second group of applications uses the address format to address the storage space in the first and second regions.

System and article of manufacture for providing an address format compatible with different addressing formats used for addressing different sized address spaces

Aspects for data sharing across batch sequential processes and on-line transactional processes in a clustered arrangement of multiple data processing systems are described. In a method aspect, the method includes performing on-line transaction process accesses and batch sequential process accesses on record data. The method further includes utilizing a dual-level locking protocol for the on-line transaction process accesses and batch sequential process accesses to achieve substantially concurrent accessibility to the record data with minimized processing overhead for the batch sequential processes.

Performance optimization for data sharing across batch sequential processes and on-line transaction processes

A method and system for transparently recovering from a coupling facility failure are disclosed. In one method embodiment, the present invention determines, following the failure of a coupling facility, which data was previously assigned to that coupling facility. The present embodiment then prevents access to that failed coupling facility. Next, the present method embodiment selects a new storage location for the data which was previously assigned to the failed coupling facility. The present embodiment then assigns the data previously assigned to the failed coupling facility to a new storage location. In the present invention, the aforementioned steps are performed without requiring preallocation of white space in an alternate coupling facility.

Method and system for recovery from a coupling facility failure without preallocating space

Data set backup in a shared environment

A Virtual Storage Access Management (VSAM) technique for maintaining data integrity of the record-level shared data in a multiprocessor system environment without the concurrency loss associated with locking at the data Control Interval (CI) or block level. Two or more concurrent processes can update different records within the same VSAM data CI using only a record-level lock. This feature relies upon multiple private data CI copies, Shared External Storage (SES), cache cross-invalidation, and a conditional writing operation. A first process updates a private copy of a data CI containing the target record from SES, logs the changes, and writes the changed data CI back to the SES conditioned upon no update having been made to the same block data CI by a second process in the interim. If a second process has indeed updated the same data CI in the interim, the first process recycles by obtaining the most recent data CI copy from SES, combining it with the first process update log entries and attempting to again conditionally write the modified data CI to SES. This process of logging updates and spinning on an intervening update by another process preserves serialization by record-level locking alone.

Method for updating a block using record-level locks by committing the

A method for writing tagged (partitioned and classified) records from a first log stream to multiple recovery streams and discarding same from said first stream at the termination of the unit of recovery in a transaction-oriented system to permit first log stream reuse.

Method for managing reuse of hard log space by mapping log data during

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Kenneth Michael Kapulka