John, The CSRSI service lets you query the physical box, LPAR, or virtual machine. It actually understands where you are running.
John P. Baker -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 3:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Real CPU Id Hum, but under z/VM, those 5 characters can be anything (valid) that you want them to be via the CP SET CPUID command. So it would be possible to run z/OS on multiple CPCs under z/VM, all with the same serial number. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

