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finnygeorge
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Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 6
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Please tell me about SVC (SuperVisor Call). I got only a few bits of information on this topic. |
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prasaar
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Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 21 Location: India
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supervisor call instruction (SVC). An instruction that interrupts a program being executed and passes control to the supervisor so that it can perform a specific service indicated by the instruction.
The PLPA is an area of common storage which is loaded at IPL time.This area contains SVC routines.
rgds,
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William Thompson
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Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 3156 Location: Tucson AZ
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I shudder to think of why you are asking about SVCs in the CICS forum.... |
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