BMC Software Assigned Patent

BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, has been assigned a patent (12430054) developed by Baruch; Offer, Ganei Tikva, Israel, Polotsky; Dori, Ramat Gan, Israel, Zelberzvig; Tomer, Rehovot, Israel, Shtatfeld; Adi, Kiryat Ono, Israel, Bahat; Roded, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel, Ifrah; Shy, Ashdod, Israel, and Peleg; Gil, Kiryat Ono, Israel, for “system and method for importing and exporting data between tapes to cloud storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods, system and computer program product, the method comprising: from high level language code (HLLC), receiving a request for reading a data set from a tape onto an object storage connected over TCP/IP to a mainframe; from the HLLC, allocating a data set on a tape comprising information to be imported, the allocation being in a format of the stored data set record and associated with a JFCB, the tape is mounted in SL mode; updating the JFCB to BLP mode; reading from the tape VOL1 data, and for each stored file initiating by the HLLC: reading HDR1/2, content block-by-block; EOF1/2 of the file; organizing the VOL1, HDR1, HDR2, content, EOF1 and EOF2 in the object storage; and closing the tape, wherein said reading is performed without setting a JES of the mainframe to BLP mode, and said reading is performed without unmounting the tape after each file.”

The patent application was filed on 2024-04-29 (18/649521).