Patent ID: 8667237

Claim:
A computer program product for deleting a relation between a source and a target in a multi-target architecture, the multi-target architecture comprising a source and a plurality of targets mapped thereto, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-usable program code embodied therein, the computer-usable program code comprising: computer-usable program code to identify a first relation for deletion from the multi-target architecture, wherein the first relation establishes a point-in-time-copy relationship between the source and a target; computer-usable program code to identify a sibling target in a point-in-time-copy relationship with the source that inherits data from the target; computer-usable program code to copy the data from the target to the sibling target; and computer-usable program code to delete the first relation, thereby terminating the point-in-time-copy relationship between the target and the source.