MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617092796 A) filed by International Business Machines Corporation on July 30, 2026, for Vector Test Zoned 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 performing validity testing of at least a portion of the source value. The performing the validity testing is based on one or more test controls obtained using a field of the instruction. The performing the validity testing determines whether a format of the at least the portion of the source value adheres to a data format variation specified by, at least, the one or more test controls. The performing the validity testing provides a result, and the result is provided for use in further processing.
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