Regardless of the meaning of "standard", IBM does provide the IHASAVER macro to assist with those choices.
I routinely make save areas 18D (or update from 18F) these days. sas On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Peter Relson <rel...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > >And unfortunately there are now six or so variants > >of "standard" linkage, hence this thread ... > > I might instead say that there is one and only one standard linkage and > that it applies only when neither ARs nor 64-bit GRs (whether AMODE 64 or > not) are involved. > > And we all know how that 72-byte savearea is mapped. > > Once you get beyond the bounds of that savearea, there is no standard, > there are instead choices. > > Peter Relson > z/OS Core Technology Design > -- sas