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That explains why it failed for Partition ID's higher than 15.

Still, sticking with dlpar...

Best Regards,

Thomas Garvey


On 2/4/2021 10:51 AM, Mark Waterbury wrote:
It's a one byte unsigned binary value, so the value ranges from 0 to 255.

That can be represented in hexadecimal as x'00' to x'FF', hence, James' remarks about "two hex digits."



On Thursday, February 4, 2021, 11:48:36 AM EST, Thomas Garvey <tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hmmm. I'll have to dig out our old code. Maybe we weren't expecting hex?

Best Regards,

Thomas Garvey


On 2/4/2021 10:40 AM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
On 2/4/21 8:13 AM, Thomas Garvey wrote:
It's been a while but, the Partition ID only supported two digits IIRC.
One-byte binary, according to my V4 MI manual. (Not surprisingly, that
option on MATMATR isn't covered at all by earlier MI manuals.) Which
works out to two hex digits.

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JHHL

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