Im a Unix admin trying to speak z/VM here.. so please bear with me..

q v cpus
13:04:09 CPU 00  ID  FF0ECDEE20948000 (BASE) IFL  CPUAFF ON
q proc expand
13:10:16 PROCESSOR 00 MASTER IFL
13:10:16 PROCESSOR 01 ALTERNATE IFL
13:10:16 PARTITION MODE LINUX-ONLY

1) What does "Alternate" indicate?
and
2) How do i get that 2nd processor to be "active" if it is not already..
i.e. showing up under q v cpus and active under z/Linux?

z/Linux shows two virtual CPUs under /sys/devices/system/cpu and
/proc/cpuinfo displays:
vendor_id       : IBM/S390
# processors    : 2
bogomips per cpu: 6868.00
features : esan3 zarch stfle msa ldisp eimm dfp
processor 0: version = FF,  identification = 0ECDEE,  machine = 2094
processor 1: version = FF,  identification = 0ECDEE,  machine = 2094

Thanks in advance.

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