> MVC  TOKEN_OUTPUT_AREA+10,C'''' THAT IS 4 TICK MARKS IN A ROW

ITYM:  MVI  TOKEN_OUTPUT_AREA+10,C'''' THAT IS 4 TICK MARKS IN A ROW

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> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:42:40 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Question About storing a Value in a Macro
> To: [email protected]
> 
> What, exactly is YTOKEN. You said "The Macro statemnents are genereated by
> a program. The program generates a TOKEN ..." Sounds like program #1
> creates program #2 and program #2 contains the SRVRCONN macros which are
> assembled after program #1 finishes (reminds me of an NCP gen, sort of). If
> so, instead of program #1 outputting
> 
>     SRVRCONN SRVRCONN CITI_TO_QSTB,YTOKEN,A0000203
> 
> it needs to output:
> 
>    SRVRCONN CITI_TO_QSTB,X'2E47B000',A0000203
> 
> which would then expand into what you indicated that you need. I don't have
> your program #1, of course, but assume at some point the value x'2E47B000'
> resides in program #1's data area in the 4 byte area labelled TOKEN.
> 
> Instead of moving the value C'TOKEN' into the output area, you need to
> convert the hex value contained in the TOKEN area into a hexadecimal
> character constant. There is the old way and the new way. The old way is
> basically:
> 
> TOKEN DS XL4 TOKEN
> HTOKEN DS XL9 HEX TOKEN
> TOHEX DC C'0123456789ABCDEF'
> ..
>        UNPK HTOKEN(9),TOKEN(5) UNPACK TOKEN
>        TR      HTOKEN(8),TOHEX-C'0'
> 
> Where the code in program #1 now does something like:
> 
>    MVC TOKEN_OUTPUT_AREA(6),=CL6'YTOKEN'
> 
> You need something like:
> 
>    MVC TOKEN_OUTPUT_AREA(2),=CL2'X''' THAT IS 3 TICK MARKS IN A ROW
>    MVC  TOKEN_OUTPUT_AREA+2(8),HTOKEN MOVE IN HEX VALUE OF TOKEN
>    MVC  TOKEN_OUTPUT_AREA+10,C'''' THAT IS 4 TICK MARKS IN A ROW
> 
> 
> If someone knows an easier way, I would love to learn it.
> 
> To me, the above is simple and well known. There is another way, using the
> TROT, but that I consider it to be a bother. Too much setup, and a problem
> if ETF-2 (Extended Translate Facility 2) is not available on the hardware.
> OK, It's on all the current hardware. But nuff said from me.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 3:47 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I have simple Macro with three positional parameters:
> >         SRVRCONN  &C,&T,&G
> >
> > The Macro generation is as follows:
> > .A020    ANOP
> >          DC   CL20'&C'                    .Name
> >          DC   AL4(&T)                     .Generated Token
> >          DC   A(&G-DSSCNTL)               .Offset IP List Address
> >          DC   A(#&G)                      .Name Count
> >          DC   CL8'&G'                     .Host Name
> > *
> >
> > The Macro statemnents are genereated by a program. The program generates a
> > TOKEN and its generated value is to be stored in the macro expansion.
> > After this program generates the macro statements the output is assembled.
> >
> > In the Assembly, the macro expands as follows:
> > SRVRCONN CITI_TO_QSTB,YTOKEN,A0000203
> > DC   CL20'CITI_TO_QSTB'          .Name
> > DC   AL4(YTOKEN)                 .Gene
> >
> > DC   A(A0000203-DSSCNTL)         .Offs
> > DC   A(#A0000203)                .Name
> > DC   CL8'A0000203'               .Host
> >
> >
> > My question concerns the "YTOKEN" parameter.
> > I would Like to Store the "value" of YTOKEN and not YTOKEN itself,
> > as its not defined in the final assembly. Hence an error is generated
> > YTOKEN not defined.
> >
> > For example If YTOKEN contained a value of 2E47B000, I wanted the macro
> > expansion to be:
> > SRVRCONN CITI_TO_QSTB,YTOKEN,A0000203
> > DC   CL20'CITI_TO_QSTB'          .Name
> > DC   AL4(2E47B000)               .Gene
> > DC   A(A0000203-DSSCNTL)         .Offs
> > DC   A(#A0000203)                .
> > DC   CL8'A0000203'
> >
> > Can someone suggest How I can get the Value of the variable YTOKEN stored
> > as an AL4(xxxxxxxx) or XL4(xxxxxxxx) in the Macro Expansion, and not an
> > AL4(YTOKEN)...
> >
> > Paul
> > -----------------------------------
> >
> 
> 
> 
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> John McKown
                                          

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