Branch entry WTO has existed only since MVS/ESA SP4.1.0 
(around 1990).   The IOS processing to schedule an
 IRB to the Region Control Task to issue DASD ERP messages 
predates that considerably. 

Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test  IBM Corp. 
Poughkeepsie NY

> > IOS runs in a combination of DIE and SRB code, except for error 
> recovery routines running in an SIRB. So if it needs to write an 
> error messages rather than just return an error could, it needs an 
> RB to do a WTO. I don't know the exact process, and I suspect that 
> it has changed since the last IOS logic manual IBM made available tous 
peons.
> 
> Why does it need an RB to do a WTO? Branch entry WTO supports SRB
> mode. (Or are you using RB as a cute short form for xRB, where x could
> be S or P or SV or SI?)



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