Charles, We are running z/PDT , we should talk my friend, i think thats a good question, i know you can emulate different architectures.
Scott On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > I am trying to come up with a complete mapping of 4-digit machine types to > C/C++ ARCH levels. (The universe for my "complete" is z architecture.) > > > > I am in pretty good shape for z900 through z13. > > > > I am dealing with future machines by assuming that anything not in my table > is of an architecture level higher than those I know about. For my > application this is a safe assumption. (I can failsafe in that direction; I > do not want to fail in the other direction: report that the hardware is > down-level when in fact it is not.) > > > > Google tells me that the zPDT is machine type 1090 or 1091. Is there a > correlation to architecture level? I kind of get the feeling that IBM ships > a software update from time to time that updates the instruction set to > *some* level. Is there a way to determine the architecture level of a zPDT > instance other than by testing feature bits in the CVT? How does one set > the > C or COBOL ARCH level if one is targeting zPDT? > > > > FSI boxes are 390 only, right? Outside of the z universe? > > > > VM does not generally alter the problem instruction set of a guest, right, > nor change the machine type number? (I recall that one can change the > serial > number.) If VM is running on a z196, every guest sees a machine type of > 2817, correct? VM neither adds store on condition to a machine that does > not > support it at the hardware level, nor deletes it from a machine that does? > > > > I know that z/OS is not licensed on Hercules but hypothetically if someone > were to run z/OS on Hercules, the machine type reported and the instruction > set are consistent - is that correct? If someone is running Hercules in for > example "z10 mode" then the machine type reported will be 2097/8 and > decimal > floating point will be present but load on condition will not? > > > > Charles > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
