On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 11:15:41 -0700, Scott Ford wrote: >Whats the new Instruction that replaces the old BAL?
BAS (and BASR) is like BAL (and BALR), except that in AMODE 24, the high byte of the return address is set to the ILC, CC and Program mask. IIRC, BAS was new with 370/XA over 30 years ago. A newer replacement for BAS is BASR, Branch and save relative. -- Tom Marchant
