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It is the responsibility of APRM to determine which partition (if any) owns the
needed I/O hardware, to attempt to get that partition to release it (vary *OFF any
devices, controllers, or lines that use the I/O hardware), and to switch the
ownership of the I/O hardware to the requesting partition. Then, the Acquire
APRM Device (ACQAPRMDEV) support code, optionally, waits for the operating
system to recognize and initialize the hardware, and finally varies *ON the
requested device. This facility can switch hardware only to and from OS/400
partitions and “available.” The command parameters for