This is what i expected. So my surprise that an ESA virtual machine on the z12 did not do it. Guess its only in SIE and not V/SIE On Aug 9, 2014 3:29 AM, "Mark Boonie" <[email protected]> wrote:
> In chapter 7 of ESA/390 Principles of Operation, section "Instructions", > Programming Note 11 says "The following additional general instructions > are available in the ESA/390 architectural mode when the z/Architecture > architectural mode is installed," after which follows the list of N3 > instructions. So, the N3 instructions are only available on > z/Architecture machines. > > - mb > > IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> wrote on > 08/08/2014 05:39:23 PM: > > > From: Rob van der Heij <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Date: 08/08/2014 05:39 PM > > Subject: ML and Architecture Level Set > > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> > > > > Folks, > > > > I am looking at the Principles of Operation telling me the ML and MLR > that > > are flagged N3 in the summary. And the legend says: > > > > "N3 Instruction is new in z/Architecture and has been added to ESA/390. > Any > > RSY or RXY instructions still use the RSE or RXE format and 12-bit > > displacements > > in ESA/390." > > > > Wonder about the "has been added" - does this mean that 9672 machines > had > > it added with a then-current MLC upgrade, or is it available for ESA/390 > > LPAR on a zArchitecture machine. Would it have to be in the OPTABLE(ESA) > > then? > > > > Rob > > >
