| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7340461 |
Deactivating virtual devices and rolling backup |
March 4, 2008 |
| Handling data includes providing a first storage area of a first type that contains sections of data, providing a second storage area of the first type that contains sections of data, providing a third storage area of a second type where the second type has, for each section thereof, a |
| 7266719 |
Host system for mass storage business continuance volumes |
September 4, 2007 |
| A mass storage business continuance time maker function host system that allows one or more MVS mainframe hosts to have the time to: establish business continuation volumes to mirror the standard mass storage volumes; synchronize business continuation volumes with the standard volume |
| 7266572 |
Restoring virtual devices |
September 4, 2007 |
| Restoring data includes providing data in a first storage area that contains sections of data, providing data in a second storage area where the second type has, for each section of data thereof, at least one of: a pointer to a corresponding section of data of the first storage area and |
| 7249130 |
Virtual storage devices |
July 24, 2007 |
| Accessing data includes a host establishing a relationship between a first storage area of a first type containing data and a second storage area of a second type containing pointers to data provided in storage areas of the first type, where the storage areas are provided in a storage de |
| 7099875 |
Method and apparatus for making independent data copies in a data processing system |
August 29, 2006 |
| A method for copying data from a source disk storage device to a destination disk storage device. In response to a copy command from a requesting host application identifying the storage locations in source and destination disk storage devices, an environment is established. Thereaft |
| 7039659 |
Method and apparatus for making differential independent data copies in a data processing system |
May 2, 2006 |
| Data is copied from a source storage device to a destination storage device in a differential mode. An extents track defines all tracks to be transferred during a first copying operation. Complementary track tables for source and destination storage devices establishing the totality of |
| 7031966 |
Method and apparatus for making independent data copies in a data processing system |
April 18, 2006 |
| A method for copying a data file from a source device to a destination device. In response to a copy command from a requesting host application identifying the source file and the storage locations in a destination, an extents track is formed to establish an environment in which the file |
| 6631477 |
Host system for mass storage business continuance volumes |
October 7, 2003 |
| A mass storage business continuance time maker function host system that allows one or more MVS mainframe hosts to have the time to: establish business continuation volumes to mirror the standard mass storage volumes; synchronize business continuation volumes with the standard volumes so |
| 6363385 |
Method and apparatus for making independent data copies in a data processing system |
March 26, 2002 |
| A method for copying a data file from a source device to a destination device. In response to a copy command from a requesting host application identifying the source file and the storage locations in a destination, an extents track is formed to establish an environment in which the file |
