It would help if they had ACB support for BSAM, BPAM and QSAM.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 7:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: BDAM files On 2017-11-27, at 14:09:56, Charles Mills wrote: > You've got to do a little bit more hoop-jumping for AMODE(31) -- separate > storage for the DCBs, and remembering the extra parameters on the various > macros. Not prohibitive, but a little more to remember, and a few more > possibilities for gotchas. > Wouldn't it be great if a single SET symbol setting could condition all the system macros to generate 24/31/64 bit expansions? Better if 24-bit just went away and never came back. And the horse it rode in on. > I have not mentioned this in a while, but I wrote a paper on converting an > xMODE(24) xSAM program to xMODE(31). If anyone wants a copy, just write me > off-line. Not a sales pitch for anything; no salesman will call. -- gil
