Re: PLO

2017-08-11 Thread Gary Weinhold
I love transactional processing. I still remember the SHARE session where it was fully described and thinking that this will make life so much easier in the future. But I may fully retire before we can safely add it to our products without dual paths for another technique. In this case PLO w

Re: PLO

2017-08-11 Thread Charles Mills
Peter, would you care to share your opinion of CSST? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Relson Sent: Friday, August 11, 2017 7:24 AM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: PLO does anyone k

Re: PLO

2017-08-11 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
PLO is an expensive instruction. It can do a little or a lot. There are about 10 pages in the POP to describe it. However, until transactional processing is supported in all environments, ISV's, who never know what environment they are running under, need to keep using the PLO instruction. OK

Re: PLO

2017-08-11 Thread John McKown
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 6:23 AM, Peter Relson wrote: > > does anyone know of good write-ups/presentations of PLO and its > capabilities and uses for an assembler programmer who knows how to use CS > and CDS. > > > My hope is that, going forward once you have a machine that supports it > and, fo

Re: PLO

2017-08-11 Thread Peter Relson
does anyone know of good write-ups/presentations of PLO and its capabilities and uses for an assembler programmer who knows how to use CS and CDS. My hope is that, going forward once you have a machine that supports it and, for those who care about z/OS under z/VM, once/if it is supported for

Re: KMx vs PCC crypto instructions

2017-08-11 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 10 August 2017 at 22:33, Farley, Peter x23353 < peter.far...@broadridge.com> wrote: > OT: I would disagree that ICSF is the "overall better choice". IMHO, if > you do not need unique Crypto Express co-processor functions or completely > and totally secure keys then ICSF is just wasted overhead