Ah. I can see how that would be easy to do (0011 == 11 decimal == b'1011'). I 
guess the byte after the HALFWORD just happened to contain x'00'.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Boonie
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 10:15 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Another you-see-what-you-want-to-see moment
>
> I know it's not Friday, but....
>
> Yesterday someone had a problem where the following behavior was
> observed:
>
> Before ICM:
>    R1       = x'0000000000000000'
>    HALFWORD = x'1122'
>
> Instruction:
>    ICM   R1,0011,HALFWORD
>
> After ICM:
>    R1       = x'0000000011002200'
>
> (The cause of the problem did not involve macros or OPSYN.)
>
> - mb
>
> Mark Boonie

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