Interesting. I have avoided going there, but perhaps I should.

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Ed Jaffe
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 8:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

On 12/14/2016 6:04 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> My only interest in using SPKA was to avoid having to use an SVC just 
> to effectively reduce my privileges (key 0 to key 8). The program does 
> this switch from key 8 to key 0 and back over a million times per hour 
> per LPAR at several locations. Using an SVC to get from SUP to PROB is 
> not any
> (much?) better.

We have a routine with similar characteristics that originally used the MODESET 
SVC to return to problem state.

After it showed up on a customer's STROBE report, we switched over to using 
LPSW instead...

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