On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:53:36 -0400, Brian Chapman wrote: >I may need wrong, but I seem to remember reading that the 12 bit lower >order value had some relation to the processor ID. This ensured the STCK >value would be unique across the sysplex. > The patent is no help: https://patents.justia.com/patent/20030101365
It never states, but one might infer that the high-order byte of ETOD might be incremented (by software?) when the clock wraps. >On Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 1:55 PM Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > >> But is it documented anywhere? PoOP is silent on the value of the field. >> RCF needed. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
