MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617093059 A) filed by International Business Machines Corporation on July 31, 2026, for Vector Test Decimal Instruction For Validity Testing.
Inventors include Klein, Michael; Schelm, Kerstin; Leber, Petra; Wagner, Andreas; Giamei, Bruce; Slegel, Timothy; Bradbury, Jonathan; Copeland, Reid; and Guo, Xin.
The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.
Abstract: An instruction to perform validity testing of a source value is executed. The executing the instruction includes obtaining the source value using at least one field of the instruction and obtaining a plurality of test controls using a field of the instruction. The one or more test controls of the plurality of test controls are used to specify which digit positions of the source value are to be tested for validity and what codes are valid codes for the digit positions specified to be tested. Validity testing of at least a portion of the source value is performed based on the plurality of test controls obtained using the field of the instruction, and the performing the validity testing provides a result. The result is provided for use in further processing.
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