On 23 October 2015 at 10:12, Leonardo Vaz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I could not find documentation on how to create an enclave SRB that would 
> make use of the zIIP processor.
> Is this documented anywhere?

As Bob said, it's available to ISVs. If you can convince IBM that you
are one (perhaps CN sells software, even if it's not your main
business. Heh - Ruby on Rails...?) then maybe they'll tell you.

Start here for the ISV route:
http://dtsc.dfw.ibm.com/MVSDS/'HTTPD2.PT217.HTML(INDEX)'

If you want to not be an ISV and still get the info, you'd have to
take it up with, as Timothy Sipples is fond of saying, "your friendly
IBM representative", by which I assume he means your IBM sales person.
How "friendly" he or she will be when you want to reduce the amount
you pay IBM by moving cycles to a cheaper CPU, I don't know. Maybe if
you can convince them that you will otherwise move the workload onto a
non-IBM system... I have no knowledge of the IBM rules in practice,
but it doesn't hurt to ask.

IBM also has rules (published following the Neon Systems legal action
a few years ago) that describe what workloads IBM allows to be run on
the various kinds of processors:
http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/machine_warranties/machine_code/aut.html
And, like Facebook, they get to change the rules any time they want.

Even ISVs with access to the means of dispatching work on a zIIP have
to conform to these rules. So if what you propose to run on your zIIP
doesn't conform in the first place, I can't imagine there's any way
they'll tell you how.

And don't forget the one documented and supported way to get your own
program to run on a zAAP/zIIP: write it in Java.

Good luck.

Tony H.

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