Storage device and method for data sharing

• US 7,117,314 B2
• Filed: 04/13/2004
• Issued: 10/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Kanda, Motohiro, Yamamoto, Akira, Yoshida, Minoru, Nakano, Toshio
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hiep T.
• Application Number:
  US10/822,702
• Publication Number:
  US 20040193794A1
• Time in Patent Office: 903 Days
• Field of Search: 711/147, 711/149, 711/112, 710/74
• US Class Current: 711/147
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2003/0697 device management, e.g. handlers, drivers, I/O schedulers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0601 Interfaces specially adapted for storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0607 by facilitating the process of upgrading existing storage systems, e.g. for improving compatibility between host and storage device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/061 Improving I/O performance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/064 Management of blocks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0661 Format or protocol conversion arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0674 Disk device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0676 Magnetic disk device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0689 Disk arrays, e.g. RAID, JBOD

Abstract

In a computer system including a disk subsystem having channel interface compatible to a count-key-data format and a SCSI interface compatible to a fixed length data format, the disk subsystem is connected to a CPU controlled by an open system operating system through the SCSI interface, and connected to an other CPU controlled by a main frame operating system through the channel interface. The CPU is provided with a CKD record access library and a VSAM access library which accesses in a FBA format the VSAM record stored by the other CPU in a CKD format in the disk subsystem and allows the access by an application program of the CPU as a VSAM record based on VSAM control information.

Claims

1. A computer system comprising:

a first computer which includes an interface according to CKD;

a second computer which includes an interface according to FBA; and

a storage system which includes a first interface according to CKD coupled to said interface of said first computer, a storage device for storing data received via said first interface, and a second interface according to FBA coupled to said interface of said second computer,

wherein said first computer sends location information of data stored in said storage device to said second computer, and said second computer sends a request for said data via said interface of said second computer to said storage system, said request includes said location information received from said first computer.

2. A computer system of claim 1, wherein said storage system sends said data to said second computer via said second interface in response to the received request.

3. A computer system of claim 2, wherein said data is received at said storage system from said first computer, and stored in said storage device.

4. A computer system of claim 1, wherein said interface of said second computer and said second interface are both according to SCSI format.

5. A storage system coupled to an open system computer and a mainframe computer, comprising:

a CKD interface coupled to said mainframe computer;

a FBA interface coupled to said open system computer; and

a disk device storing data received from said mainframe computer,

wherein said FBA interface receives a request including location information of target data from said open system computer, said location information is sent from said mainframe computer to said open system computer.

6. A storage system according to claim 5, wherein said storage system sends the target data stored in said disk device to said open system computer according to the received request.

7. A storage system according to claim 6, wherein said storage system sends the target data stored in said disk device, said target data is specified by said location informal ion included in the received request.

8. A storage system of claim 5, wherein said FBA interface is according to SCSI format.

9. A computer system comprising:

a mainframe computer;

an open system computer; and

a storage system, which is coupled to said mainframe computer and said open system computer, and which comprises a CKD interface coupled to said mainframe computer, a FBA interface coupled to said open system computer, and a storage device storing data received from said mainframe computer,

wherein location information of data stored in said storage device is also stored in said storage device, and

wherein said open system computer obtains said location information from said storage device via said FBA interface, converts the obtained location information into location information in FBA, and sends an access request including the converted location information to said storage system via said FBA interface.