Since I brought it up, I've asked our systems folks to submit a RFE for this. I had to submit one earlier this week for the missing extended mnemonics for the [N] Z/M/P/O conditions on the LOC[G] and STOC[G] instructions! Currently, only [N] E/H/L conditions are supported.
Robert Ngan CSC Financial Services Group IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> wrote on 2014/02/20 17:43:34: > From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 2014/02/20 17:45 > Subject: Re: Error with dependant USING beyond 4096 bytes > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> > > On 2014-02-20 16:34, John Ehrman wrote: > > Gil noted that I wrote: > >> > >> Addressability of the base location is a requirement for Dependent > > USINGs. > >> > > and replied: > >> Who made that rule? Why? Can it be appealed? And why > >> addressability with 12-bit displacement (you neglected or > >> deliberately omitted to say that), rather than one of the > >> longer displacement formats? > > > > Because that's how Dependent USINGs work. (Now.) The fact that existing > > USING ranges were designed around (and limited by) 12-bit displacements is > > worth pursuing with HLASM development. Submitting an RFE will get you > > started. > > > When is an RFE necessary? Who submitted the RFE to add long > displacement capability other than in USINGs? Who submitted > the RFE to add z196 capability to HLASM? Etc. > > -- gil
