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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014

Filed:

Jun. 13, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

John R. Flanagan, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Daniel F. Casper, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Catherine C. Huang, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Matthew J. Kalos, Tucson, AZ (US);

Ugochukwu C. Njoku, Yonkers, NY (US);

Dale F. Riedy, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Gustav E. Sittmann, III, Webster Groves, MO (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/76 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 13/126 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer program product, apparatus, and a method for facilitating input/output (I/O) processing for an I/O operation at a host computer system configured for communication with a control unit. The method includes receiving a command block from the channel subsystem, the command block including at least one input command and at least one output command specified by a transport command word (TCW) and associated with the I/O operation, the I/O operation having both input and output data, the TCW specifying a location in the memory of the output data and a location in the memory for storing the input data; receiving the output data specified by the TCW and executing the at least one output command; and forwarding the input data specified by the TCW to the channel subsystem for storage at a location specified by the TCW.


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