Protocol Conversion Using Facilities and Utilities

A computer-readable storage medium comprising:

• operational instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to use a first facility to receive first data in a first protocol from a first node;
• operational instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to spawn a first utility and a second utility in response to receiving the first data;
• operational instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to use the first utility and the second utility to translate the first data into second data in accordance with a second protocol;
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• operational instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to use a second facility to send the second data to a second node.

A computer-readable storage medium comprising:

• operational instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to use a first facility to receive first data in a first protocol from a first node;
• operational instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to place the first data in a data field of a first entry in a process table and to set a semaphore in a semaphore field of the first entry indicating that the first data has been placed in the first entry;
• operational instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to use a first utility to translate the first data in the data field of the first entry into second data in a second protocol;
• operational instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to place the second data in a data field of a second entry in the process table and to set a second semaphore in a second semaphore field of the second entry indicating that the second data is in the second entry;
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• operational instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to use a second facility to send the second data from the data field of the second entry to a second node.