Is there ever a "need" to write an SVC?  Or to put it another way, is there 
sometimes a need to get OS services from a problem state program like in an 
SVC?  And if so, are PC routines the new way?

Were once SVC's ok, and now they are not preferred?

Just curious is all.

Thanks!
Lindy

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Peter Relson
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 2:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SVC 34

If you were intending to write your own SVC routine that might be a different 
matter, and you would be strongly discouraged from doing so.
If you were asking something like "I see an SVC issuance in a trace, what 
service was it?", then the diagnosis reference mentioned by Ray Overby can help.

Peter Relson
z/OS Core Technology Design

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