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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ronald E. Bretschneider, San Martin, CA (US);
John R. Paveza, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Beth A. Peterson, Tucson, AZ (US);
Max D. Smith, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gail A. Spear, Tucson, AZ (US);
Harry M. Yudenfriend, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for mirroring writes of records to maintain atomicity for writing a defined group of records to multiple tracks. Sub-writes are received from a host system to write records in defined groups in a write, wherein at least one of the sub-writes includes records to write for at least one of the defined groups that spans multiple tracks. For each of the sub-writes including records for at least one of the defined groups that spans multiple tracks, the tracks in the sub-write with to the secondary storage system to cause the secondary storage system to apply the tracks upon receiving all the tracks for the sub-write. Complete is returned for the sub-write to the host system upon receiving confirmation from the secondary storage system that all the tracks for the sub-write have been applied to the secondary storage system.