Patent ID: 9588712
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A computer program product for migrating data in a computing storage environment, by a processor device, the computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code stored therein, the computer-readable program code executing the steps of: receiving, from a first processor, data that is unprotected comprising a data integrity field; utilizing, by a second processor, a peer-to-peer remote copy (PPRC) application to add protection to the data to generate protected data; checking a CRC for the protected data when a request to migrate the protected data is received; storing the protected data in the protected SCSI LUN; and subsequent to adding the protection, modifying a value in the data integrity field such that the value is different than an industry standard default value for protected data subsequent to adding the protection.