Yeah, the approach you suggest occurred to me but it seemed a lot of trouble considering that it is not a perfect solution for the reasons you describe.
I got a good approach from a couple of people and have coded (but not tested yet) that. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Determining MACHINE level in a macro You could use character symbol subscripting and extract the numeric part of &SYSOPT_OPTABLE (select everything from position 3 to the length of the symbol) then assign that character string to a numeric symbol and test that numeric symbol value. Of course, if they ever change the "ZS" to something else that would also break. HTH Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Determining MACHINE level in a macro I am writing a macro that I want to be parametrized by the MACHINE level: generate one thing if MACHINE greater than or equal to ZS-6 and another thing if less. I can compare &SYSOPT_OPTABLE to 'ZS6' and jump if GE. But I would guess that one of these days there will be a ZS-9 and then a ZS-10 and 'ZS10' compares low to 'ZS6'. Is the machine level available somewhere in a numeric symbol that will continue to increment, or is there some better way to do this? Charles This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system.
