On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:25 AM, McKown, John < [email protected]> wrote:
> Any chance you will/may/can share this example code to the rest of us? Not > that it matters to me. We don't have a zIIP or zAAP. > > Please contact me off list. > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-691-6183 cell > [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or > proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and > issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake > Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of > TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel > > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 12:20 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Speciality TCBs > > > > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Sam Siegel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 5:44 PM, William H. Blair > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > >> Sam Siegel explains: > > >> > > >> <--snip--> > > > > > It is extremely unlikely that you have accidentally > > stumbled upon the > > >> mechanism to make this little bit of magic happen. It is > > always possible > > >> that there is a bug in z/OS and your SRB is, in fact, > > being dispatched on > > >> a > > >> zIIP. But I seriously doubt that. > > >> > > > > > > Agreed, it could be a bug. But I've seen this in v1r9 and > > v1r10. I'm not > > > saying that there is certainty that the SRB is dispatched > > to a zIIP all of > > > the time. But it seems to happen extremely regularly. > > > > > > <--snip--> > > > > The SRB was modified to do a loop of about 420,000,000 > > iterations. Inside > > the loop was a STAP followed by a CLI to see which CPU was being used. > > Based on the CPU, different counters were incremented. > > There are 2 CPUs on > > the system. > > > > The counter for cpu 0 is 44,300,650. > > The counter for cpu 1 is 375,129,750. > > > > Below is the output from D M=CPU > > > > IEE174I 06.33.02 DISPLAY M FRAME 1 F E SYS=xxxx > > PROCESSOR STATUS > > ID CPU SERIAL > > 00 + 02abcd9988 > > 01 +I 12abcd9988 > > > > System name and serial numbers have been masked. > > > > <--snip--> > > > > > > > > > >> -- > > >> WB > > >> > > > > > > > > > > >
