IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 07/07/2005 12:12:19 PM:
> And I am very curious as to how > IBM managed > to make z/OS work with more than 16 Instruction Processors in one image. > E.g., how is the 17th CPU supported with the 16-bit CPU affinity > mask in the SRB > and all the other various 16-bit CPU masks imbedded at least in the Control > Program? z/OS does not allow SRB or TCB affinity to any processor whose address is larger than x'0F'. The affinity 16-bit masks were not extended. Some of the other 16-bit masks (in IHACSD, for example) were replaced by new (longer) bit masks. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
