Re: common area [E]CSA question / idea / idiocy

2009-05-19 Thread Rob Scott
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Re: common area [E]CSA question / idea / idiocy

2009-05-19 Thread Wayne Driscoll
== "McKown, John" Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 05/19/2009 01:43 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject common area [E]CSA question / idea / idiocy I'm reading the paper about IB

Re: common area [E]CSA question / idea / idiocy

2009-05-19 Thread Edward Jaffe
McKown, John wrote: Is AR mode that much more difficult / restrictive than AMODE(64)? Most HLL have no support for data spaces. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http://www

Re: common area [E]CSA question / idea / idiocy

2009-05-19 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > Unless there has been a change, dataspaces are limited to 2G. > Takes a lot of > dataspaces to map 100G. And one must screw around with a lot of ALETs. > > But I am glad some people are considering VSCR for 64 bit storage.

Re: common area [E]CSA question / idea / idiocy

2009-05-19 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:43:20 -0500 "McKown, John" wrote: :>I'm reading the paper about IBM's plans for the 64-bit common (HVCOMMON?). And I'm really beginning to wonder about something. What this will do is create another block of storage which is mapped into every address space. I am curious

common area [E]CSA question / idea / idiocy

2009-05-19 Thread McKown, John
I'm reading the paper about IBM's plans for the 64-bit common (HVCOMMON?). And I'm really beginning to wonder about something. What this will do is create another block of storage which is mapped into every address space. I am curious why IBM has not considered using AR mode and a SCOPE=GLOBAL d