SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR CREATING A SHARED FILE SYSTEM BETWEEN A MAINFRAME AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

• US 20170046361A1
• Filed: 08/10/2015
• Published: 02/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company), VelociData, Inc. (Openvault LLC)
• Original Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company), VelociData, Inc. (Openvault LLC)
• Inventors: Ganguly, Tapan, Henrichs, Michael, Howard, Curtis, Indeck, Ron, Prakash, Rajiv R., Shah, Imran, Vetrady, Robin Thomas, Bishop, Fred
• Granted Patent: US 9,898,483 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/183 Provision of network file services by network file servers, e.g. by using NFS, CIFS network file access protocols H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/46 Multiprogramming arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/544 Buffers; Shared memory; Pipes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

The disclosed system may comprise a mainframe computing resource, a data library, a data processing appliance, and a distributed system. The data library may be securely connected to the mainframe computing resource. The data library may be configured to receive data from the mainframe computing resource via a first interface. The data processing appliance may be configured to read and write data to the data library via a second user interface. The distributed system may be configured to receive data from the data processing appliance. The distributed system may be further configured to process the data based on a workflow from the mainframe computing system.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

writing, by a mainframe computing resource, data to a shared file system;

indicating, by the mainframe computing resource, to a data processing appliance that data exists that is ready for processing;

removing, by the data processing appliance, mainframe semantics from the data;

processing, by at least one of the data processing appliance or a distributed system, the data;

writing, by the data processing appliance, processed data to the shared file system in a mainframe tape format; and

notifying, by the data processing appliance, the mainframe computing resource that the processing data is ready for further processing by the mainframe computing resource,

wherein the notification includes at least one of a success return code or failure return code.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising indicating, by the mainframe computing resource, to the data processing appliance a workflow to process the data.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising reading, by the data processing appliance, the data from the shared file system.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising scheduling, by the mainframe computing resource, a job to process the processed data based on the return code.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising converting, by the data processing appliance, the data from a first format to a second format.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first format is a mainframe format and the second format is a distributed format.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is a file.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting, by the data processing appliance, the data is the second format to the distributed system in response to the removing and the converting form the first format to the second format.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the shared file system comprises a data library and the data processing appliance.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the mainframe semantics are tape information.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data format is a mainframe communication protocol.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the data processing appliance comprises a plurality of programmable logic gates.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the mainframe computing resource is configured to communicate with the data library through a first interface.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the data processing appliance is configured to communicate with the data library through a second interface.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the first interface is isolated form the second interface.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the data processing appliance is configured to at least one of translate or stream the data from the mainframe computing resource to the distributed system in real time.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the distributed system is configured to appear as mounted drive to the mainframe computing resource via he connection to the mainframe computing resource through the data processing appliance.

18. A system comprising:

a mainframe computing resource;

a data library securing connected to the mainframe computing resource and configured to receive data from the mainframe computing resource via a first interface;

a data processing appliance configured to read and write data to the data library via a second user interface; and

a distributed system configured to receive data from the data processing appliance and process the data based on a workflow from the mainframe computing system.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the data processing appliance is configured to convert the data from the data library from a mainframe environment format to a distributed system environment format.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the data processing appliance is further configured to receive processed data from the distributed system in response to the processing and load the data to the data library.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the processed data is stored in a first portion of the data library designated for the data processing appliance, and wherein the first portion is segregated from a second portion of the data library that receives data from the mainframe computing resource.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the processed data from the data processing appliance includes at least one of a success return code or failure return code.