Data sharing method and system between information processing systems with variable length block format to fixed length block format conversion
US6516385B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 5, 2000 |
| Grant date | Feb 4, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 5, 2020 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F3/0676
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A data sharing method and system between information processing systems which enable an information processing system to share data in an internal disk unit possessed by another information processing system. A disk control unit within the other information processing system having an external disk unit or an external disk unit includes a disk data sharing mechanism for creating a read/write request to the internal or external disk unit from a command equivalent to a read/write request to a data in a conventional disk subsystem. This mechanism emulates a CCW command to access data in the disk unit.
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