That's the chart I was remembering... Thanks!! (Bookmarked now!)
Lee
Alan Ackerman wrote:
The one thing I can think of is Appendix A of the General Information Man
uals, IBM Processors
Supported by VM. The GI manual for z/VM 4.2.0 is the last one to mention
VM/ESA 2.3.0. See
<http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/hcsf8a50.pdf>. It shows support
of processors up
to the z900. (The only 'z' processor mentioned.) The z900 is supported by
z/VM 2.3.0, but has
caveats:
Notes on z900:
For specific service levels required, contact your IBM representative.
(1) 370-mode operating systems will not run as guests of VM on this ser
ver.
(2) VM230 does not support the CMOS Cryptographic Coprocessor. Moreover
, APAR VM61244 is
required to run this release on a machine with the CMOS Cryptographic Pro
cessor installed.
(3) VM230 requires APAR VM61762 to support IEEE Floating Point.
(4) VM230 and VM240 do not support the z/Architecture (64-bit) capabili
ties of the z900.
The announcement letter for the z800 says it requires z/VM 2.4.0. So z900
is the official end of
the line for z/VM 2.3.0. VM/ESA 2.3.0 may in fact run on the z800, but yo
u aren't going to find
anything from IBM that says so.
If you are interested in earlier processors see the link above. Or perhap
s even earlier versions of
the GI manual.
Alan Ackerman
Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com
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