On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:40:32 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: > On 10/19/2010 9:03 AM, Robert Raicer wrote: >> IBM issued the flash/alert which can be seen at: >> >> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21171847 >> >> This flash references APAR PQ88207. The "Local Fix" portion of the >> APAR description states: >> >> "Run on hardware the includes the Long Displacement Facility or has >> the simulation/emulation software." >> >> (The quote is literal from the IBM APAR description -- the first >> occurrence of the word "the" is an IBM typo that should be the word >> "that".) >> >> I was not aware of Long Displacement Facility "simulation/emulation >> software" which was distributed as a base part of z/OS. Was this >> simulation capability available in z/VM? > >The only "simulation/emulation" I know of was the millicode upgrade to the >Licensed Internal Code on the processor hardware. Was there something >distributed with z/OS?
My interpretation of this statement from IBM is that it refers to FLEX-ES. This was a huge problem for ISVs that needed to support DB2 V8 but also used FLEX-ES because it took quite a long time for long-displacement to be supported by the FLEX-ES emulator. Likely there were licensing issues. David
