That's the first thing I thought of, too -- but note that there is no z/V M in this picture, just z/OS and PR/SM. z/OS does recognize the existence of z/VM but it still does no t handshake with z/VM as far as I know. Have I missed something?
Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:55:11 -0700, Schuh, Richard <rsc...@visa.com> wrot e: >Does this mean that z/OS is finally catching up to the VM/DOS handshakin g of years gone by? > >Regards, >Richard Schuh > > > >> z/OS has a new feature HiperDispatch to help reduce the MP >> and NUMA effec= t. In the Austin SHARE proceedings, see "2831 >> - System z10: HiperDispatch From a Sysprog= Perspective." It >> involves cooperation between PR/SM and the z/OS dispatcher. >> >> Alan Ackerman >> alan.acker...@bankofamerica.com >> ========================= ========================= ========== ============