z/Architecture CMS is shipped as a sample program with z/VM 5.3.
See http://www.vm.ibm.com/related/zcms/index.htmlfor more information
and a link to a short document.

John Franciscovich
z/VM Development

>z/CMS is IBM's experimental 64-bit CMS. While CMS does not exploit the
>64-bit environment, it does support applications that do. z/CMS does not
>directly exploit storage above 2G. On z/VM 5.3 it can be IPLed in a
>virtual machine with more than 2G of storage and application programs
>can use subpool DMSUSERG to allocate storage above 2G. Applications can
>enter AMODE 64, the high order contents of the 64 bit general purpose
>registers are saved and restored across interrupts and are mode
>available  to interrupt handling interfaces. However, z/CMS can not be
>IPL-ed in an XC mode virtual machine, so no support for things like data
>spaces.
>
>Huegel, Thomas wrote:
>> Just a question of courisoty.
>> I'm working on installing z/VM 5.3 and besides the familiar CMS NSS I see
>> ZCMS NSS.
>> I haven't seen any reference to Z/CMS before I can IPL it but I see the
>> maint level is 000. CMS is 702.
>>
>> Just courious.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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