I was quizzing a vendor who wrote the code for their product to use a zIIP and was assured nothing special from IBM was required. Which meant anyone could write enclave SRB code and set the bit requesting a zIIP engine and it would be honored, providing a zIIP was available and not overloaded.
So as a curiosity question - if you can answer - is access to a zIIP really being controlled or is lack of knowledge preventing the masses from rewriting code so everyone buys as few GP engines as they can and matching zIIPs to lower ISV costs? I am not planning on using one in any code I write, just wondering if only the larger ISV's can afford to 'use' the API. On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:54:54 -0500, Kevin Mckenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I had presumed that any eligible work was automatically offloaded to >these >> special purpose processors. What does this new API allow software >vendors >> to do on top of that. > >The zIIP API allows for ISVs to declare their work eligible to run on a >zIIP, assuming the work meets the zIIP requirements (ie, runs in enclave >SRB mode). > >Kevin McKenzie >z/OS BCP SVT, Dept FXKA, Bldg 706/2D38 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
