Other environmental factors in recovery

As mentioned previously, the other environmental factors to be concerned about in a recovery environment are:
  • Authorization: problem state or supervisor state, PSW key, and PKM
  • SDWA storage key
  • Dispatchable unit mode
  • Cross memory mode
  • AMODE
  • ASC mode
  • Interrupt status
  • DU-AL
  • Locks
  • Program mask
  • Condition of the linkage stack
  • AX
  • EAX
These environmental factors differ depending on whether the routine is:
  • An ESTAE-type recovery routine
  • A retry routine getting control from an ESTAE-type recovery routine
  • An FRR
  • A retry routine getting control from an FRR.