On Tue, 13 May 2008 08:04:15 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 13 May 2008 12:11:31 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>Using Mark's IPLINFO utility on our 1.9 system, I see this entry: >> >>>IPS=00, >Default >> >>>I thought the ICS and IPS went out of town once Workload Manager came in. >> >>Actually it's only been gone since z/OS 1.2. >>Up until then, you could still use IPS/ICS in COMPAT mode. >> >>It's not 1.9; it's Mark's code. >>It still reflects an IPS and an ICS, even though they don't exist anymore. >> > >It's not my code, it's IBM's. I am just displaying the entires in the IPA >(Initialization Parameter Area) that are populated by IBM (see the IHAIPA >macro). The PDE (parameter descriptor elements) still exist for the IPS >and ICS (IHAIPS / IHAICS). There is also remnants of ILM in there but >I do strip those out for z/OS 1.5 and above. I suppose I could do the same >for IPS and ICS, but I don't. > Actually, it's only IPS still populated, not ICS. So if someone IPL's with an IEASYSxx that specifies IPS=xx, does it create an error message or does NIP go happily on its way and SRM / WLM just ignore it? BTW Ted, COMPAT mode went away in z/OS 1.3, not z/OS 1.2. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
