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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2021
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Eric Mark Schwarz, Gardiner, NY (US);
Timothy Slegel, Staatsburg, NY (US);
Jonathan D. Bradbury, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Michael Klein, Schoenaich, DE;
Reid Copeland, Richmond Hill, CA;
Xin Guo, Toronto, CA;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Vector pack and unpack instructions are described. An instruction to perform a conversion between one decimal format and another decimal format is executed, in which the one decimal format or the other decimal format is a zoned decimal format. The executing includes obtaining a value from at least one register specified using the instruction. At least a portion of the value is converted from the one decimal format to the other decimal format different from the one decimal format to provide a converted result. A result obtained from the converted result is written into a single register specified using the instruction.