On 20Feb09:0011+0000, Christopher Y. Blaicher wrote: > Having done all of this, I would suggest that you start with EXCP and then > progress to EXPC/VR. Even with EXCP you have to know and understand the > relationship of the CCW's you are going to use. Read carefully. Start > simple. Build on it slowly. > > Going from EXCP to EXCP/VR is a big jump. Everything you have to do for > EXCP/VR you will have to do for STARTIO, plus more. > > Once you have EXCP/VR running, go look at the STARTIO macro in SYS1.MODGEN. > > EXCP and EXCP/VR have some guard rails built into them, but you can still > really screw things up at EXCP/VR because you will have to supply the REAL > addresses for the CCW's. > > When, and if, you start playing with EXCP/VR, I strongly suggest using a > sandbox LPAR. If you ever get to STARTIO that suggestion should rise to a > requirement. > > Chris Blaicher > Technical Architect > Syncsort, Inc.
If z/VM is available, that's a godsend environment for safely seeing what z/OS actually does in some of those nooks and crannies (definitely if you're playing around with LPSW and the like). -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
