Patent ID: 8972615
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A computer program product for procuring information from entities in a network via an Input/Output (I/O) processing system, comprising: a non-transitory tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising: obtaining, by a channel subsystem, a transport command word (TCW) specified by an operating system, the TCW comprising an address of a transport services request block (TSRQB) and an address of a transport services response block (TSRSB); obtaining, by the channel subsystem, the TSRQB; building, by the channel subsystem, at least one command request based on the TSRQB, and sending, by the channel subsystem, the at least one command request from the channel subsystem to at least one network entity, the at least one command request including at least one of a fiber-channel generic services (FC-GS) request, a fiber-channel link services (FC-LS) request, and a fiber-channel link-level function (FC-SB) request; receiving, by the channel subsystem, a response to the at least one command request from the at least one network entity; and storing, by the channel subsystem, the response to the TSRSB based on the address of the TSRSB obtained from the TCW.