RMF has reports of what COULD run on assist processors and if you have them what DID run on assist processors.
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 9:06 PM Pew, Curtis G <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 3, 2020, at 3:30 PM, Jackson, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm curious: what about adding zIIPs was challenging? > > 1. Determining what our zIIP and non-zIIP capacity needs would be. In other > words, since we didn’t have zIIPs before we weren’t sure how much of our > workload would actually run on the zIIPs. > > 2. The biggest thing was that we are an Adabas/Natural shop, so we were > hoping to run both those products zIIP-enabled. However, we have a home-grown > security system that’s implemented by several thousand lines of assembler > code that runs as a part of the Natural session, and this code was doing > things like issuing SVCs and examining the current TCB, and those things > don’t work when you’re running zIIP-enabled. So the challenge was if we could > rewrite all that code to work on zIIPs. (And see “how much of our workload > could run zIIP-enabled” above.) > > We were able to get the code rewritten, and we’ve been very happily running > Adabas and Natural zIIP-enabled ever since. > > > -- > Pew, Curtis G > [email protected] > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
