RMF General Purpose LPA/Rs

The general-purpose LPAR type encompasses the following:
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  • z/OS logical partitions
  • z/VM logical partitions operating in PR/SM ESA/390 mode
  • z/VSE logical partitions
  • z/TPF logical partitions
General-purpose logical partitions exclusively use resources from the standard CP processors' pool. The only exceptions are z/OS LPARs configured with zAAPs and/or zIIPs.
Because only z/OS logical partitions can create SMF type 70 subtype 1 records, the amount of information available to track non-z/OS general-purpose LPARs' activity is limited to the contents of the HARLPC file, that is, to the high-level PR/SM perspective. For these partitions, RMF does not provide any view from inside the operating system, unlike z/OS LPARs.