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> On Jun 27, 2019, at 8:43 AM, Peter Relson <rel...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> I think RTM does a RP and RP is setup for a 16 byte PSW you think they 
> could of found 8 bytes  in SDWARC4
> </snip>
> 
> RTM does not do a "resume program" (RP instruction). Even if this were 
> available for the decades that RTM has supported retry, it would not have 
> been of any help whatsoever.
> 
> If someone makes a business case for needing to retry to a 64-bit address 
> *AND* preserve the contents of all 16 registers, that could be considered 
> for the future.
> But it is fully possibly to accomplish retrying to a 64-bit address, as I 
> have pointed out, as long as you are willing to sacrifice register 15 (or, 
> if providing your own stub, any other register except perhaps register 0).
> 
> There is no available reserved space in SDWARC4, as you could tell by 
> looking. Adding things to the SDWA has cost (including negative 
> ramifications to the amount of storage available below 16M), and 
> potentially significant ramifications to things like the dump header. As a 
> result, updates are not made lightly.
> 
> If you set SDWAG64R15, and identify CVTBSM0F as the retry point, you also 
> need to specify RETRY15=YES on SETRP so that reg 15 is available with your 
> value when the CVTBSM0F BSM is issued.
> 
> Peter Relson
> z/OS Core Technology Design

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