Abstract: If the cost of an access plan meets a condition, and an exit program is registered, data is logged for the access plan if logging is requested by a return code from the exit program. Execution of the access plan is continued or canceled if requested by the return code. In another embodiment, an inquiry message is sent to an application, the data is logged and execution of the access plan is continued or canceled if requested by a response to the inquiry message. In another embodiment, the data is logged if the logging if an override parameter requests the logging. In various embodiments, the cost of the access plan is calculated by predicting a predicted time for the execution and a predicted amount of storage needed for the execution or by calculating the actual time and the actual amount of storage used by partial execution of the access plan.

Abstract: A method and computer program product are provided for automatic conversion of data by a server computer system based on a location extension in a universal naming convention (UNC) name. Responsive to receiving a universal naming convention (UNC) name used for identifying data stored on the server computer system, a predefined location extension to a share name in the universal naming convention (UNC) name is identified. The identified predefined location extension is utilized for automatic conversion of the stored server data.