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6.1.2 z/OS 64-bit considerations
In z/OS V1R6, an enhancement was introduced to support 64-bit application
development. This included an opportunity to expand the address space up to
1 million TB.
The z/OS 64-bit implementation uses the Long Pointer 64 (LP64) programming
model, which is a standard from the Open Group consortium. This introduced
more data types that support a length of 8 bytes (64 bits), instead of a 4-byte
length data type (32 bits). Refer to the Open Group Web site for further details:
http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html
The LP64 model is integrated into the IBM ...