US 12,079,658 B2
Detection of invalid machine-specific data types during data conversion
Jonathan D. Bradbury, Poughkeepsie, NY (US); Laith M. AlBarakat, Wappingers Falls, NY (US); Timothy Slegel, Staatsburg, NY (US); and Andrew M. Sica, Oxford, CT (US)
Assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Jun. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/350,450.
Prior Publication US 2022/0405123 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 16/25 (2019.01); G06N 3/063 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 9/4856 (2013.01) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 16/258 (2019.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06N 3/063 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
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1. A computer program product for facilitating processing within a computing environment, the computer program product comprising:
one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media to perform a method comprising:
performing a conversion operation to convert workload data of one or more data types to one or more other data types, the performing the conversion operation comprising performing a plurality of conversion actions, wherein a conversion action of the plurality of conversion actions comprises:
processing an instruction of an instruction set architecture, the instruction to be used to convert selected data from a source data type to a target data type, and wherein at least one of the source data type and the target data type is specified using the instruction, the processing the instruction comprising:
determining based on at least decoding the instruction using a processor of the computing environment, that a data type indicated using the instruction is an invalid data type for a select machine, the data type being a selected data type selected from multiple data types, the multiple data types including the source data type and the target data type; and
setting an indicator to a select value to indicate that the data type is the invalid data type for the select machine, based on determining that the data type is the invalid data type for the select machine, the indicator to be checked at an end of the conversion operation.