1. A computer program product for performing a frame management function in a computer system of a machine architecture, the computer program product comprising: a storage medium readable by said computer system, said computer readable medium storing instructions for performing: obtaining a machine instruction containing an opcode for a frame management instruction; and executing said machine instruction comprising: obtaining clear frame information comprising a frame size field indicating whether a storage frame is any one of a small block of data in memory, and a large block of data in memory; obtaining an operand address of said storage frame upon which said machine instruction is to be performed, said operand address comprising any one of an address of said small block of data in memory, and an address of said large block of data in memory; in response to said indicated storage frame being a small block of data, clearing said small block of data, wherein said clearing sets all bytes of the small block of data to zero; in response to said indicated storage frame being a large block of data, obtaining an operand address of an initial first block of data of the large block of data, said large block of data comprising a first plurality of first blocks of data; and in response to said indicated storage frame being a large block of data, clearing a second plurality of said first plurality of first blocks of data, wherein said clearing sets all bytes of the second plurality of first blocks of data to zero.