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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Scott M. Carlson, Tucson, AZ (US);
Donald Crabtree, Port Ewen, NY (US);
Dennis J. Dahlen, Rhinebeck, NY (US);
Beth A. Glendening, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Michel H. T. Hack, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Denise M. Sevigny, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Ronald M. Smith, Sr., Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
David E. Whitney, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A protocol for communicating with the timing facility used in a data processing network to provide synchronization is provided via the execution of a machine instruction that accepts a plurality of commands. The interaction is provided through the use of message request blocks and their associated message response blocks. In this way timing parameters may be determined, modified and communicated. This makes it much easier for multiple servers or nodes in a data processing network to exist as a coordinated timing network and to thus more cooperatively operate on the larger yet identical data files.