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| date = January 1987}}</ref> mode, IBM changed the I/O architecture to allow the [[Channel Subsystem]] to handle the channel scheduling that the operating system handled in S/370 mode. The new I/O architecture used a 16-bit '''subchannel number''', a 16-bit '''device number''' and an 8-bit '''Channel Path Identifier''' ('''Channel Path Id''' or '''CHPID'''); the [[Channel Subsystem]] was responsible for mapping the '''subchannel number''' to the channel and device numbers, for queuing I/O requests and for selecting from the available paths.
 
Starting with [[IBM zZ#IBM zSeries family|z990]], IBM introduced the concept of a '''Logical Channel Subsystem'''<ref>{{cite manual
| title = IBM IBM eServer zSeries 990 Technical Guide
| id = SG24-6947-01