Re: some questions about System z PR/SM.

2007-08-13 Thread legolas wood
Thank you all for your description. I really appreciate the time you put to describe the answers for me. Now I understand the big picture of mainframe and it OSs. Thanks Rick Fochtman wrote: snip--- Hi Thank you for reading my email. I have some

Re: some questions about System z PR/SM.

2007-08-12 Thread Timothy Sipples
John Giltner writes: Depending on which zSeries Server you have the maximum number of LPARs PR/SM can create is either 15 (z990 and older) or 60 (z9). Here are the maximum number of LPARs available per single machine: z900: 15 z800: 15 z990: 30 z890: 30 (*1) z9 BC: 30 (*2) z9 EC: 60 (*1) Except

some questions about System z PR/SM.

2007-08-11 Thread legolas wood
Hi Thank you for reading my email. I have some question about PR/SM and I would be very thankful for any answer. - System z PR/SM is implemented as hardware and it is capability of IBM mainframe hardware. - z/OS or z/VM are interfaces (command line or GUI ) that let us use the above capability

Re: some questions about System z PR/SM.

2007-08-11 Thread R.S.
legolas wood wrote: Hi Thank you for reading my email. I have some question about PR/SM and I would be very thankful for any answer. - System z PR/SM is implemented as hardware and it is capability of IBM mainframe hardware. - z/OS or z/VM are interfaces (command line or GUI ) that let us use

Re: some questions about System z PR/SM.

2007-08-11 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
legolas wood wrote: Hi Thank you for reading my email. I have some question about PR/SM and I would be very thankful for any answer. - System z PR/SM is implemented as hardware and it is capability of IBM mainframe hardware. Not really, as RS stated, PR/SM is microcode, special software that

Re: some questions about System z PR/SM.

2007-08-11 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (R.S.) writes: No. PR/SM is microcode - a code under OS. Sometimes called firmware. z/OS runs in LPAR. Although it can obtaine i.e. LPAR name, it is still unaware from PR/SM and LPARs features. z/OS works in virtual machine (Logical PARtition) and does know that machine.

Re: some questions about System z PR/SM.

2007-08-11 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip--- Hi Thank you for reading my email. I have some question about PR/SM and I would be very thankful for any answer. - System z PR/SM is implemented as hardware and it is capability of IBM mainframe hardware.