When you say Live Guest Relocation isn’t supported for a z/OS guest is the
mechanism for hiding new instructions available for a z/OS guest?

I ask because if it is available it would be great for e.g. a software
vendor to test support for previous machines.

Just a thought. Cheers, Martin

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> On 22 Mar 2019, at 17:37, Peter Relson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> FWIW, live guest relocation is not supported for the case of z/OS running

> under/on z/VM.
>
> <snip>
> What happens on an older model where a field is "reserved, must be zero"
> if the programmer supplies a non-zero value which would be valid on a
> newer model?
> </snip>
> Perhaps, architecturally, the answer is: the behavior is undefined or
> machine-dependent.
> I would guess that in most cases the actual behavior is that there is no
> enforcement so that the non-zero value would simply be ignored.
>
> Peter Relson
> z/OS Core Technology Design
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