They do not support whatever is in TCBPKF.  I have seen code in TSO which has 
hardcoded x'80'.

Jim Mulder

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ed 
Jaffe
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2023 9:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Cant SPKA to PSW Key 4

On 2/23/2023 6:46 PM, Joseph Reichman wrote:
> I am trying to change psw storage key from "Normal" key 8 to Key 4
>
> SPKA X'40'
>
> I have bit 15 of the psw 0 ,meaning I am in supervisor state and get a 
> s0c1 running this code under TESTAUTH
>
> I am able to get to PSW key 0 SPKA 0
>
> Don't get it

ISTR discovering empirically 30+ years ago that TSO/E TEST and TESTAUTH support 
only two execution keys: X'80' and X'00'.

I wondered if in-fact they actually support whatever key is in TCBPKF and X'00' 
but never experimented to see if that was the case.

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