On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:41:13 -0700, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 9/30/2011 10:17 AM, Mark Zelden wrote: >> On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:11:07 -0500, Barbara Nitz<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Let's see if the rest of the autoipl function is as bad. >> Use it, love it. Long time coming... VM has had a reipl option "forever". > >Just to clarify: although the results appear similar, what z/VM has done >'forever' is not actually a reIPL. > >z/OS is using a relatively new System z hardware function that reIPLs the LPAR. >This is a _real_ IPL! > >z/VM was simulating that by shutting down (almost completely, but not quite) >and >then branching back to the top of the code from within the _same IPL_ as >understood by the hardware. > Right, thanks for making that distinction. z9 (at the proper driver) or above required IIRC. Sort of changing subjects slightly here: Have you (or anyone) ever known a case were VM reipl didn't do what you needed it to do? I haven't worked with VM enough in recent history to know. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.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
