Who thought up the name IGDZILLA? Maybe the same people who thought up $DILBERT and $DOGBERT?
Although I doubt JES2 talks to SMS very often. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Seymour J Metz Gesendet: Sonntag, 26. August 2018 20:53 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: IEATDUMP MF=L Can someone explain this? I hate censorware. Scunthorpe would pass muster in California either. The prefix IEA goes all the way back to OS/360; it's Supervisor. The T, of course, is Transaction. Who thought up the name IGDZILLA? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2018 5:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IEATDUMP MF=L Can someone explain this? On 2018-08-25, at 14:27:44, Charles Mills wrote: > +2 > > Labels belong in column 1 where your eye can scan for them. > Who thinks up these macro names, anyway? That one wouldn't pass muster as a California vanity license plate. > It's great that the new MF=L macros do not require initialization but is > "which ones" documented anywhere? I tend to use a "model" scheme for > initializing the DSECT with the MF=L's that works well for me, so I always > use it. > I once tried to define a prototype with DCs; move it into obtained storage for reentrancy, then map it with dependent USINGs. No luck; got ambiguous resolution. Would have worked if dependent USING allowed for a lower bound as well as an upper bound. (64-bit is a greater challenge.) -- gil
