Patrick, I've only done a very quick search, but I found some newer documentation that might provide some clues. There's a "redpiece" that got published recently here:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4131.pdf Starting on page 5 there's a brief section on HMC configuration. There are a couple individuals listed at the end of the redpiece, and you might wish to drop them a line if you're still stuck. One thing I notice is they say "z900 GA2," and that's very specific language. One of the big new features on the GA2 models was support for the PCICA, so that seems to make some sense as to why there might be that statement about the LPAR configuration. Perhaps you have a GA1 or GA3 system? (I think the GA2 z900 was basically a microcode change from GA1. The GA3 z900 models are in the 2xx series -- these are the "turbo" models.) I also found this z900 Linux z/VM crypto performance report: http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/reports/zvm/html/crypto.html which makes for an interesting read. It looks like the crypto hardware does give a pretty good boost to Linux on z900 with PCICC, so I shouldn't have been so lukewarm. - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan, Ltd. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
