On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:29 PM Farley, Peter x23353 < [email protected]> wrote:
> I do understand that all these cool things are, in fact, quite dangerous > facilities for the uninitiated and ignorant, and well-deserving of the > provided protection from untutored use. > > I don't think it's a sufficient business case for IBM purposes, but the > lack of GUPI encapsulation for these kinds of capabilities which are > already available in the system does at least somewhat limit the scope of > applications that can be envisioned and implemented by programmers without > access to private sandbox systems in which to experiment and learn. > Going back to the start, I totally agree that IBM should expose some GUPI interface to the DUCT oriented facilities used by the TRAP mechanism. After all, they did for the "linkage stack" instructions like BAKR. And they published caveats about using them. One big drawback to using BAKR is that there is not a simple method to recover from a "stack full" condition. Another drawback is that, from what I've read, BAKR is CPU intensive compared to any of the standard linkage methods currently defined by IBM. > > Sometimes I wish I still worked for a viable ISV where such > experimentation is encouraged and rewarded, and then I remember the > uncertainty and extraordinary work pressure of employment at such > companies. Very bad for one's digestion and usually detrimental to calm > family life. > > Peter > > -- There is no such thing as the Cloud. It is just somebody else’s computer. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
