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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2019
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Matthew G. Borlick, Tucson, AZ (US);
Lokesh M. Gupta, Tucson, AZ (US);
Carol S. Mellgren, Tucson, AZ (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 12/0868 (2016.01); G06F 12/126 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1471 (2013.01); G06F 11/0727 (2013.01); G06F 11/0757 (2013.01); G06F 12/0868 (2013.01); G06F 12/126 (2013.01); G06F 2201/805 (2013.01); G06F 2201/82 (2013.01); G06F 2212/312 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, and computer program product in which a computational device stores a data structure that includes identifications of a plurality of volumes and identifications of one or more time locks associated with each of the plurality of volumes. The data structure is indexed into, to determine whether an input/output (I/O) operation from a host with respect to a volume is to be permitted.