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z/VM 6.3 Support and Enhancements

z/VM 6.3 Toleration Support

The VM release validation module is updated to properly identify MONITOR data that is generated by VM systems running z/VM Version 6 Release 3. Data element VM System Release Level (VMLEVEL) is set to 'z/VM V6 R3.0' when z/VM Version 6 Release 3 monitor data is processed.

IBM APAR VM65041 High Performance FICON for System z (zHPF) Support

The support for this APAR is included with z/VM 6.3. zHPF consists of extensions to FICON architecture to reduce elapsed times, improve I/O rates and bandwidth of small block I/O requests.

Support for this new architecture is provided as updates to the following files:

VMXCPM - Channel Path Measurement Activity

VMXXDV - Device Activity File

VMXSCF - System Configuration File

VMXSGP - System Global Data File

New FICON and zHPF activity information is also added in the Channel Path Activity (VMXLPA) report.