Method, system and program products for copying coupling facility structures

A system of copying storage structures of a shared storage processor of a computing environment, said shared storage processor being coupled to one or more processors of said computing environment, and said system comprising:

• means for initiating a copy operation for a storage structure of said shared storage processor, wherein said storage structure is owned by an exploiter of said storage structure;
• and
• means for copying, via an operating system of said computing environment, at least a portion of the contents of said storage structure from said storage structure to another storage structure of said computing environment.

A system of copying storage structures of a shared storage processor of a computing environment, said shared storage processor being coupled to one or more processors of said computing environment, and said system comprising:

• a first processor adapted to initiate a copy operation for a storage structure of said shared storage processor, wherein said storage structure is owned by an exploiter of said storage structure;
• and
• a second processor adapted to copy, via an operating system of said computing environment, at least a portion of the contents of said storage structure from said storage structure to another storage structure of said computing environment.

At least one program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying at least one program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method of copying storage structures of a shared storage processor of a computing environment, said shared storage processor being coupled to one or more processors of said computing environment, and said method comprising:

• initiating a copy operation for a storage structure of said shared storage processor, wherein said storage structure is owned by an exploiter of said storage structure;
• and
• copying, via an operating system of said computing environment, at least a portion of the contents of said storage structure from said storage structure to another storage structure of said computing environment.