Patent ID: 8589603

Claim:
A computer program product for facilitating processing in a computing environment, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method, the method comprising: receiving at a receiving adapter of the computing environment from a sending adapter of the computing environment a write operation to be performed by the receiving adapter; performing the write operation by the receiving adapter to write data to memory of the computing environment; determining by the receiving adapter whether the write operation has completed, wherein the determining comprises performing by the receiving adapter a read operation to confirm the write operation has completed in that the data has been written to the memory, the read operation initiated locally by the receiving adapter and reading only a portion of the data that has been written by the write operation to determine the write operation has completed, and wherein the read operation is absent a comparing of the written data and the read data; and based on determining via the read operation that the write operation has completed, sending an acknowledgment to the sending adapter.