On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:43:26 -0600, Don Williams <donb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>IBM has already implied that the TOD register is intended to be a programming >interface by stating in the POP manual: > >13. Uniqueness of TOD-clock values can be extended to apply to processors >in separate configurations by including a configuration identification in the TOD >programmable field. > >IBM should state (in z/OS documentation) that z/OS guarantees a unique >value in each register of a sysplex (as suggested in the POP manual), >however, the particular value is not a programming interface, only that the >value will be unique within a sysplex. There are many hardware architectural features described in the PoP that z/OS does not consider programming interfaces for programs running on z/OS. Finding and documenting all of them appropriately as "not a programming interface" would require a lot of work, I think. -- Walt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
