Are you referring to VECTOR LOAD MULTIPLE and VECTOR STORE MULTIPLE? I don't know of any other vector instructions that have more than two source quadwords and one destination quadword.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [[email protected]] on behalf of Peter Relson [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2020 9:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Does the z architecture have something like the SIMD instructions <snip> IBM has "Vector" instructions, but the size of a vector is limited to one quadword. </snip> That limitation is not the case for z/Architecture vector operations. To the question of the subject, simply, yes. There are SIMD instructions. Whether they are "the" SIMD instructions I don't know. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design
