On Tuesday, 02/03/2009 at 10:58 EST, Tom Duerbusch 
<duerbus...@stlouiscity.com> wrote:
> Can an encryption processor be shared between a 390 LPAR and an IFL 
LPAR?  I 
> think not, but there is word that, in the future, we will be able to mix 

> processors in the same IFL, but no date has been set to my knowledge.
> 
> We are trying to build a case for upgrading to a z10 BC this year. Extra 

> speciality engines are fairly cheap.

Each crypto card has 16 cryptographic domains (aka "queues").  Each queue 
can be assigned to any LPAR, without regard to LPAR type.  While one LPAR 
can access multiple domains, a domain cannot span LPARs.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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