On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:03:23AM -0500, McKown, John wrote: > > I have been asked to identify if it is possible to run an old,old > > version of MVS/SP and DFP (3.2) on a zSeries processor (z890). (this is > > not an April fool joke) > Impossible. The zSeries does not implement the old I/O instructions (SIO > et al.) that are used by MVS/SP. z/VM cannot be used because it does not > implement emulation for these instructions either.
The version the original poster is asking about isn't old enough to use the 370 I/O instructions. MVS/SP 3.2 was the formal name for an early release of MVS/ESA. I don't know if he'll be successful in running that under z/VM in a machine defined with MACHINE ESA, but that's probably the only way he'll be able to do it on his z/890. (Of course, if IBM had a sane licensing policy, he could run it on Hercules...) -- Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.cx http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!) Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/hercules-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
