Was wrong. It is available in an ESA virtual machine. Just as it says in the book. On Aug 9, 2014 8:46 AM, "Rob van der Heij" <rvdh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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" <boo...@us.ibm.com> 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 <ASSEMBLER-LIST@listserv.uga.edu> wrote on >> 08/08/2014 05:39:23 PM: >> >> > From: Rob van der Heij <rvdh...@gmail.com> >> > To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@listserv.uga.edu >> > Date: 08/08/2014 05:39 PM >> > Subject: ML and Architecture Level Set >> > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER-LIST@listserv.uga.edu> >> > >> > 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 >> > >> >
