Re: Re: Wait State 00050064

The first version of MVS that supported LPARs was MVS/SP V2R1. Thus, OS/VS2
ver 3.8J would not know about LPARs.

Joe

On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 11:41 AM ''Fish' (David B. Trout)'
[email protected] [H390-MVS] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Dave Wade wrote:
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> [...]
> > was the LPAR number hidden from the OS....
> > .... do S/370 OS's know about LPARs and how should
> > Hercules behave when one is defined.
> >
> > Perhaps Hercules is behaving badly...
>
> I would tend to agree.
>
> I personally questioned the behavior (by Mark Gaubtaz (dasdman) back in
> Sept. 2013) which is what lead to my eventual introduction of the "Limited
> automatic LPARNUM updating when setting certain architecture modes" change
> in Hyperion 4.1 (https://sdl-hercules-390.github.io/html/hercrnot.html#4.1),
> but he insisted such handling was correct, and I felt he was in a better
> position to know than me (having worked at Amdahl for many years and having
> access to documents unavailable to the general public).
>
> <shrug>
>
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> "Fish" (David B. Trout)
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