Thank you Allan.

Thank you,
Scott R Wandschneider
Senior Systems Programmer
Infocrossing
Office 402.963.8905

-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:33 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Define/Remove CPU from an MVS Guest

On Wednesday, 06/04/2008 at 10:38 EDT, "Wandschneider, Scott" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In other words there is no way to remove a CPU without an IPL - is
that
> correct?

Correct.  To add/remove CPUs dynamically requires use of specific 
z/Architecture that allows that to occur, but CP doesn't virtualize that

architecture.  It would be highly inappropriate to rip a CPU out from 
under a system without telling it the CPU is leaving/gone.  So, we reset

the guest to avoid any potential for "unpredictable results".

We do know that it would be a Good Thing to have that capability so that
a 
guest could shrink or grow its CPU consumption as the number of CPUs in 
the LPAR shrinks or grows.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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