On Sun, 4 Aug 2013 12:21:38 -0600, Mark Post wrote:
>
>There is support built into the Linux kernel to create a Named Saved System 
>(NSS) of itself when booting.  (NSS is proper term here, since you can issue 
>an IPL command against an NSS, which you cannot do with a DCSS (DisContiguous 
>Saved Segment).
> 
And here, I'm not up to speed on my jargon.  Since I can say,
"CP IPL CMS", does that mean CMS is a NSS?  I had always
thought of it as a DCSS.

>After that gets saved to spool, any z/VM guest can IPL using that shared NSS.  
>Only one copy of it will be brought into real storage for any number of users.
>
"... any number of users"?  Or any number of virtual machines?
(May not be the same thing; one z/OS virtual machine may support
"any number" of TSO users.)  (FSVO "any".)

-- gil

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