IBM Enterprise Systems Architecture

IBM Enterprise Systems Architecture is an instruction set architecture introduced by IBM as ESA/370 in 1988. It is based on the IBM System/370-XA architecture.

It extended the dual-address-space mechanism introduced in later IBM System/370 models by adding a new mode in which general-purpose registers 1-15 are each associated with an access register referring to an address space, with instruction operands whose address is computed with a given general-purpose register as a base register will be in the address space referred to by the corresponding address register.

The later ESA/390, introduced in 1990, added a facility to allow device descriptions to be read using channel commands and, in later models, added instructions to perform IEEE 754 floating-point operations and increased the number of floating-point registers from 4 to 16.

Enterprise Systems Architecture is essentially a 32-bit architecture; as with System/360, System/370, and 370-XA, the general-purpose registers are 32 bits long, and the arithmetic instructions support 32-bit arithmetic. Only byte-addressable real memory (Central Storage) and Virtual Storage addressing is limited to 31 bits, as is the case with 370-XA. (IBM reserved the most significant bit to easily support applications expecting 24-bit addressing, as well as to sidestep a problem with extending two instructions to handle 32-bit unsigned addresses.) It maintains problem state backward compatibility dating back to 1964 with the 24-bit-address/32-bit-data (System/360 and System/370) and subsequent 24/31-bit-address/32-bit-data architecture (System/370-XA). However, the I/O subsystem is based on System/370 Extended Architecture (S/370-XA), not on the original S/370 I/O instructions.

ESA/370 architecture

ESA/370

Designer	IBM
Bits	32-bit
Introduced	1988; 36 years ago (1988)
Design	CISC
Type	Register–Register Register–Memory Memory–Memory
Encoding	Variable (2, 4 or 6 bytes long)
Branching	Condition code, indexing, counting
Endianness	Big
Predecessor	System/370-XA
Successor	ESA/390
Registers
General-purpose	16
Floating point	4 64-bit

IBM S/370-ESA and S/390-ESA registers

General Registers 0-15 Two's complement value 0 31

Access Registers 0-15^[1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 P ALESN ALEN 0 6 7 8 15 16 31 ESA Access register abbreviations Bits Field Meaning 0-6 0000000 7 P Primary 0=use dispatchable-unit access list 1=use primary-space access list 8-15 ALESN access-list-entry sequence number 16-31 ALEN access-list-entry number

Control Registers 0-15 See Principles of Operation^[2]^[3] or Control Registers 0 31

Floating Point Registers 0-6/0-15^[a] S Biased exponent Mantissa 0 1 7 8 31 Mantissa (continued) 32 63

Enterprise Systems Architecture Extended Control mode PSW ^[4] ^[5] 0 R 0 0 0 T I O E X Key 1 M W P AS CC Program Mask 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 23 24 31 A Instruction Address 32 33 63 ESA EC mode PSW abbreviations Bits Field Meaning 1 R PER Mask 5 T DAT mode 6 IO I/O Mask; subject to channel mask in CR2 7 EX External Mask; subject to external subclass mask in CR0 8-11 Key PSW key 12 E=1 Extended Control mode 13 M Machine-check mask 14 W Wait state 15 P Problem state 16-17 AS Address-Space Control 00=primary-space mode 01=Access-register mode 10=Secondary-space mode 11=Home-space mode 18-19 CC Condition Code 20-23 PM Program Mask Bit Meaning 20 Fixed-point overflow 21 Decimal overflow 22 Exponent underflow^[b] 23 Significance^[c] 32 A Addressing mode 0=24 bit; 1=31 bit 33-63 IA Instruction Address

On February 15, 1988, IBM announced^[6][7] Enterprise Systems Architecture/370 (ESA/370) for 3090 enhanced ("E") models and for 4381 model groups 91E and 92E.

In addition to the primary-space and secondary-space addressing modes that later System/370 models, and System/370 Extended Architecture (S/370-XA) models, support, ESA has an access register mode in which each use of general register 1-15 as a base register uses an associated access register to select an address space.^[8] In addition to the normal address spaces that machines with the dual-address-space facility support, ESA also allows data spaces, which contain no executable code.

A machine may be divided into Logical Partitions (LPARs), each with its own virtual system memory so that multiple operating systems may run concurrently on one machine.

ESA/390 architecture

ESA/390

Designer	IBM
Bits	32-bit
Introduced	1990; 34 years ago (1990)
Design	CISC
Type	Register–Register Register–Memory Memory–Memory
Encoding	Variable (2, 4 or 6 bytes long)
Branching	Condition code, indexing, counting
Endianness	Big
Predecessor	ESA/370
Successor	z/Architecture
Registers
General-purpose	16
Floating point	4 64-bit up to the G4; 16 64-bit starting with the G5^[9]

An important capability to form a Parallel Sysplex was added to the architecture in 1994.

ESA/390 also extends the Sense ID command to provide additional information about a device, and additional device-dependent channel commands, the command codes for which are provided in the Sense ID information, to allow device description information to be fetched from a device.^[10][11]

Some PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes which provide ESA/390 processors in smaller machines have been released over time, but are only intended for software development.

New facilities

ESA/390 adds the following^[12] facilities

All models

• Access-list-controlled protection

Some models

• Concurrent sense
• PER 2
• Storage-protection override
• Move-page facility 2
• Square root
• String instruction
• Suppression on protection with virtual-address enhancement
• Set address space control fast
• Subspace group
• Called-space identification
• Checksum
• Compare and move extended
• Immediate and relative instruction
• Branch and set authority
• Perform locked operation
• Additional floating-point
• Program call fast
• Resume program
• Trap
• Extended TOD clock
• TOD-clock-control override
• Store system information
• Extended translation 1
• Extended translation 2
• z/Architecture (certain instructions)
• Enhanced input/output

New channel commands

The following channel commands^[d] are new, or have their functionality changed, in ESA/390:^[11]

ESA/390 I/O-Device Commands

Command	Bit Position
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Read configuration data	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	0
Read node identifier	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	0
Sense ID	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0
Set interface identifier	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	1
Note: D Device dependent. The command code, if any, recognized by an I/O device may be obtained by using a sense-ID command.

Notes

1. The number and format of floating-point registers depends on the installed features:

   ESA/370
   ESA/390 without the Advanced Floating Point (AFP) facility

   Only the hexadecimal floating point (HFP) registers FP0, FP2, FP4 and FP6 exist

   ESA/390 with the AFP facility

   FP0_FP15 may be HFP or IEEE floating point

2. Bit 22 is renamed as HFP exponent underflow in ESA/390
3. Bit 23 is renamed as HFP significance in ESA/390
4. The data returned by Sense ID include the command codes for Read configuration data, Read node identifier and Set interface identifier.

References

S370-ESA

IBM Enterprise Systems Architecture/370 Principles of Operation (PDF) (First ed.). IBM. August 1988. SA22-7200-0.

S/390-ESA

IBM Enterprise Systems Architecture/390 Principles of Operation (PDF) (Ninth ed.). IBM. June 2003. SA22-7201-08.

1. S370-ESA, p. 5-30, Access-list-Entry Token.
2. S370-ESA, pp. 4-7–4-9, Figure 4-3 Assignment of Control-Register Fields.
3. S390-ESA, pp. 4-8–4-10, Figure 4-3 Assignment of Control-Register Fields.
4. S370-ESA, p. 4-5, Program-Status-Word Format.
5. S390-ESA, p. 4-5, Program-Status-Word Format.
6. "IBM 3090 PROCESSOR UNIT MODELS 280E AND 500E AND IBM 3090 PROCESSOR UNIT MODEL 300E TO 400E UPGRADE". Announcement Letters. IBM. February 15, 1988. 188-038.
7. "ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE/370 (TM) AND MVS/SYSTEM PRODUCT VERSION 3". Announcement Letters. IBM. February 15, 1988. 288-059.
8. S370-ESA.
9. Slegel, Timothy J. (August 17, 1998). "IBM S/390 G5 Microprocessor" (PDF). Hot Chips.
10. S390-ESA, pp. 1–8.
11. Enterprise Systems Architecture/390 Common I/O-Device Commands, Second Edition, IBM, April 1992, SA22-7204-01
12. S390-ESA, pp. D-1–D-7, Appendix D. Comparison between ESA/370 and ESA/390.